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

2011-04-12 Thread Garrett Serack
On Behalf Of Eric Schultz Sent: Saturday, April 09, 2011 12:44 PM To: William A. Rowe Jr. Cc: coapp-developers@lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re: [Coapp-developers] Simulating Symlinks on Windows XP I know it sounds crazy at first. Consider though the situation of a Windows-only program with depen

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

2011-04-09 Thread Nasser Dassi
I would argue to get it done right between the targeted versions of Windows before expanding into the world of "what ifs". As for symlinks, my only meaningless contribution are the famous words of Béla Károlyi, Kerri Strug's coach: "You can do it." - nasser On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 2:43 PM, Eric S

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

2011-04-09 Thread Eric Schultz
I know it sounds crazy at first. Consider though the situation of a Windows-only program with dependencies on CoApp packages that someone wants to install on Linux. It would be nice if installing that didn't fail. Again, it's not a particularly pressing issue just something to think about. Eric

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

2011-04-07 Thread Garrett Serack
, April 07, 2011 6:34 PM To: coapp-developers@lists.launchpad.net Subject: 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 issu

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

2011-04-07 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
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

2011-04-07 Thread Eric Schultz
his is man's code! > > Given that we have a .NET 4.0 requirement, and Wine doesn't have that... > > G > > From: Eric Schultz [wwaha...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 6:06 PM > To: Garrett Serack > Cc: coapp-developers@

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

2011-04-07 Thread Eric Schultz
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

2011-04-07 Thread Rafael Rivera
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

2011-04-07 Thread Garrett Serack
e: [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 F

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

2011-04-07 Thread Lee Fisher
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

2011-04-07 Thread Garrett Serack
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