[ITP] stow

[Max Bowsher]

Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On May 17 12:02, Max Bowsher wrote:
>> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>> On May 16 14:30, Schulman.Andrew@epamail.epa.gov wrote:
>>>> Right.  I hadn't considered that, but since the Windows shortcut is
>>>> fundamentally broken, you're right that stowing won't work for DLLs, or
>>>> outside of the Cygwin environment.  (Philosophical question:  which
>>>> component of Windows deserves the blame for the failure of the Windows
>>>> shortcut?  The file system, the shortcut design, or the shell?)
>>>
>>> The filesystem and the OS for not supporting symbolic links.  Microsoft
>>> took an approach by implementing reparse points in W2K but since these
>>> reparse points only work for partitions and directories, it's still
>>> broken.
>>>
>>>> http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/cygwin/stow/setup.hint
>>>> http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/cygwin/stow/stow-1.3.3-1.tar.bz2
>>>> http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/cygwin/stow/stow-1.3.3-1-src.tar.bz2
>>>
>>> Uploaded.
>>
>> Umm.... Shouldn't someone have done a review first?
>
> I did.  Packaging looked good, so what?

That's ok then.
You didn't say that you had done a review as well as an upload, hence my 
question.

Max.