> > I would like to package and maintain stow for Cygwin. Stow is an > > installation manager for local software packages. It installs packages by > > creating sets of symlinks from the installed location (e.g. /usr/local) to > > a stow directory (e.g. /usr/local/stow/emacs) where the real files live. > > This, presumably, should work fine for simple packages, but will be unusable > in conjunction with packages that install DLLs?
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?) > If you've found a way around that, then great! No, I'm afraid I haven't. > If not, make sure to note so in the readme. OK, I've uploaded new packages with a description of this problem in the README. Andrew. 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
