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Re: [ITP] stow


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.

Thanks,
Corinna

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