Re: symbolic linls

2016-08-10 Thread David Macek
On 10. 8. 2016 12:46, Andrey Repin wrote: >>> Windows' symbolic links are typed: they need to know whether they point to >>> a directory or to a file > > This is of no concern for an application. This is actually the worst problem with NTFS symlinks. The symlink becomes unreadable/untraversable

Re: symbolic linls

2016-08-10 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, David Macek! As i understand Cygwin will soon no longer support Windows XP resp. 2003. This means that only Windows versions with native symbolic link functionality will be supported after that. Would it be possible to use only native symbolic links throughout esp. d

Re: symbolic linls

2016-08-10 Thread David Macek
On 10. 8. 2016 3:16, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, David Macek! > >>> As i understand Cygwin will soon no longer support Windows XP resp. >>> 2003. This means that only Windows versions with native symbolic link >>> functionality will be supported after that. Would it be possible to use >>> onl

Re: symbolic linls

2016-08-09 Thread Warren Young
On Aug 9, 2016, at 7:16 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: > >>> As i understand Cygwin will soon no longer support Windows XP resp. >>> 2003. This means that only Windows versions with native symbolic link >>> functionality will be supported after that. Would it be possible to use >>> only native symbolic l

Re: symbolic linls

2016-08-09 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, David Macek! >> As i understand Cygwin will soon no longer support Windows XP resp. >> 2003. This means that only Windows versions with native symbolic link >> functionality will be supported after that. Would it be possible to use >> only native symbolic links throughout esp. during se

Re: symbolic linls

2016-08-05 Thread David Macek
On 5. 8. 2016 13:24, Franz Fehringer wrote: > Dear Cygwin community, > > As i understand Cygwin will soon no longer support Windows XP resp. > 2003. This means that only Windows versions with native symbolic link > functionality will be supported after that. Would it be possible to use > only nati

symbolic linls

2016-08-05 Thread Franz Fehringer
Dear Cygwin community, As i understand Cygwin will soon no longer support Windows XP resp. 2003. This means that only Windows versions with native symbolic link functionality will be supported after that. Would it be possible to use only native symbolic links throughout esp. during setup.exe? Bes