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Re: [ITP] stow
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, 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.
> >>
> >>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
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