On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 09:50:31AM -0400, Lev Bishop wrote: >On 5/1/07, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 08:06:23AM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote: >>>OK. Should I copy or make a hard link? >> >>Before you do this, I have a question. Why is this important now when >>you've apparently been doing this for many years? This isn't the only >>package which makes symlinks to executables. And, since, AFAIK, >>setup.exe doesn't understand hard links it means that you really do >>have to make a copy. If you make a copy you stand the chance of having >>python.exe out of sync with the thing that it is supposed to be >>pointing to. > >You could avoid that particular problem by making a hardlink in a >postinstall script, right?
That would mean that python.exe wouldn't be owned by any package. You could also solve the problem at hand by just using sh.exe to invoke python from a non-Cygwin command prompt. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
