A number of people (myself included) have been "caught" over the fact that cygwin shortcuts can obviously not be executed from a windows shell. There appears to me to be 4 ways of dealing with this
1) Ignore the problem, use a proper shell
2) On NTFS, use hard links. I did this for a while, then I thought I heard that it could cause problems when programs were updated
3) Have option to duplicate linked files. I've been doing this for a while now, and the loss of disk space is minimal
4) Replace links to executables with a very small executable which does the linking process. I've been experimenting a little with this and it doesn't seem like a bad idea, except a) it involves hacking where you want to link to into the executable (not too bad), b) the shortcut is no longer reckonised by ls / ln / etc (would this be hard to fix?) and c) I can't make a cygwin executable <10kish (this is still not that large, and I'm sure someone better than me could make it smaller.
Any comments / suggestions?
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