On May 17 13:36, Max Bowsher wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >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.
I see. I thought that would be clear. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc.
