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

2011-04-12 Thread Garrett Serack
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 dependencies

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
] 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

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, CoApps designrelies heavilyon the use ofSymbolic Links(symlinks)a

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

2011-04-07 Thread Eric Schultz
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@lists.launchpad.net; Lee Fisher Subject: Re: [Coapp-developers] Simulating

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 it