Greetings, David Macek! >> As i understand Cygwin will soon no longer support Windows XP resp. >> 2003. This means that only Windows versions with native symbolic link >> functionality will be supported after that. Would it be possible to use >> only native symbolic links throughout esp. during setup.exe?
> Short answer: No. > Long answer: > There are limitations to NTFS symlinks, other than OS support, that make > them incompatible with POSIX symlinks. See > <https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#pathnames-symlinks> and > <https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/wiki/Symbolic-Links> for more > information. There's limitations, yes. But what do you mean by "incompatibility" ? -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Wednesday, August 10, 2016 04:16:00 Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
