On Sat, Sep 16, 2006 at 12:10:30PM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
> Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> | On Sat, Sep 16, 2006 at 01:48:46AM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
> | > Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> | > 
> | > | > You mean appending a .sh to each script and associating it with bash?
> | > | > Bleach...
> | > | 
> | > | I am saying native LyX/Win works well in a cygwin environment.
> | > 
> | > Unless you use symlinks.
> | 
> | Could you give a use case?
> 
> 0.
> I store lyx documents in subversion, since subversion supports
> symlinks I have decided to use them because it makes my dir layout
> nice and allow me to collect docs into several categories.
> 
> 1a.
> My subversion client is a cygwin client.
> 
> My LyX is Win/Native... my lyx is not able to load (or even find) my
> lyx documents.
> 
> 1b. (alternate reality)
> 
> My subverion client is a win client
> 
> My LyX is Win/Native, everything works as expected.
> (caveat in 1d.)
> 
> 1c.
> 
> My subversion client is a cygwin client.
> 
> My LyX is a Win/Cygwin, everything works as expected.
> 
> 1d.
> 
> My subversion client is a win client
> 
> My LyX is Win/Cygwin, everything works (except that now I edit the
> wrong file, sine symlinks are extraced as real files when the
> underlying system does not support tehm.)
> 
> 
> Perhaps this is more of subversion problem, but I am pretty sure that
> this can bite in several other cases as well.

I'd argue that people using a LyX/Win nantive client are not
too concerned about symlinking their .lyx files, but you have
a point.

Andre'

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