Re: [PATCH 1/2] Treat Windows Store's "app execution aliases" as symbolic links

2021-03-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin-patches
Hi Johannes, I'm not opposed to treat these applinks as symlinks. I have a suggestion and a style nit, though. On Mar 12 16:11, Johannes Schindelin via Cygwin-patches wrote: > When the Windows Store version of Python is installed, so-called "app > execution aliases" are put into the `PATH`. Thes

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Treat Windows Store's "app execution aliases" as symbolic links

2021-03-15 Thread Hans-Bernhard Bröker
Am 15.03.2021 um 04:19 schrieb Johannes Schindelin via Cygwin-patches: Hi Joe, On Sat, 13 Mar 2021, Joe Lowe wrote: I agree on the usefulness to the user of showing appexec target executable as symlink target. But I am uncertain about the effect on code. Maybe. But I am concerned about the e

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Treat Windows Store's "app execution aliases" as symbolic links

2021-03-15 Thread Johannes Schindelin via Cygwin-patches
Hi Joe, On Sat, 13 Mar 2021, Joe Lowe wrote: > I agree on the usefulness to the user of showing appexec target executable as > symlink target. But I am uncertain about the effect on code. Maybe. But I am concerned about the effect of not being able to do anything useful with app execution aliase

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Treat Windows Store's "app execution aliases" as symbolic links

2021-03-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin-patches
On Mar 13 19:41, Joe Lowe via Cygwin-patches wrote: > Hi Johannes, > > I agree on the usefulness to the user of showing appexec target executable > as symlink target. But I am uncertain about the effect on code. > > One example: Any app that is able to archive/copy posix symlinks will > convert t