On May 17 12:02, Max Bowsher wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On May 16 14:30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc.
