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