Re: [Coapp-developers] Simulating Symlinks on Windows XP

Look you. This stuff is hard enough! From: coapp-developers-bounces+garretts=microsoft@lists.launchpad.net [coapp-developers-bounces+garretts=microsoft@lists.launchpad.net] on behalf of William A. Rowe Jr. [wmr...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, Apri

Re: [Coapp-developers] Simulating Symlinks on Windows XP

On 4/7/2011 8:06 PM, Eric Schultz wrote: > I wonder what effect all this will have on CoApp package installation on > WINE. Obviously > that not a pressing issue but its probably something to consider going > forward. . Entire point of CoApp - running OSS packages natively Let's see, what is i

Re: [Coapp-developers] Simulating Symlinks on Windows XP

I didn't think about that. Mono doesn't have WPF. It think most of the other .NET 4 code would work though. On Apr 7, 2011 8:19 PM, "Garrett Serack" wrote: > Yeah. > > WINE. > > > Uh, ain't gonna work. We're not using the baby features of CoApp. This is man's code! > > Given that we have a .NET 4.

Re: [Coapp-developers] Simulating Symlinks on Windows XP

I wonder what effect all this will have on CoApp package installation on WINE. Obviously that not a pressing issue but its probably something to consider going forward. Eric On Apr 7, 2011 12:27 PM, "Garrett Serack" wrote: ___ Mailing list: https://laun

Re: [Coapp-developers] Simulating Symlinks on Windows XP

tl;dr: Stop using old operating systems, damnit! On 4/7/2011 9:03 AM, Garrett Serack wrote: As I mentioned in my last post, CoApp’s design relies heavily on the use of Symbolic Links (symlinks)—a

Re: [Coapp-developers] Simulating Symlinks on Windows XP

For CoApp V1, I'm not doing any testing on FAT systems at all; and without hardlink, symlink or junction support, CoApp packages won't install correctly to FAT volumes. For V2 (somewhat down the road), where we aim to also support 'portable' installs of applications (by using local SxS support

Re: [Coapp-developers] Simulating Symlinks on Windows XP

On 4/7/11 9:03 AM, Garrett Serack wrote: > As I mentioned in my last post, CoApp's design relies heavily> > on the use of symlinks Does CoApp's dependency on symlinks cause it to only target NTFS volumes? Can it target FAT volumes, like MSI/WIX and NSIS? Thanks. _

[Coapp-developers] Simulating Symlinks on Windows XP

As I mentioned in my last post, CoApp's design relies heavily on the use of Symbolic Links (symlinks)-a feature which is implemented fairly well in Windows Vista and beyond, but is missing in