On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 10:27:55AM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: >Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >> The SYSTEM type was the only one until 2001, default until 2002, >> and still produced by setup.exe. > >On that topic... > >I always felt it was a bit inconsistent that setup still uses the >old-style symlink, but obviously it works fine as otherwise there would >be lots of breakage. I am tempted to rewrite that code to use the .lnk >style symlinks, but I don't want to introduce a possible >destabilization just for aesthetics. Can you think of any real >justification for getting rid of these old-style symlinks?
I was just talking to Corinna recently about this. I think we both regret having introduced the .lnk style symlinks since they introduce a lot of headache into the filename processing. However, that said, I guess it would make sense to convert setup.exe to use .lnk style symlinks because that would eliminate problems where remote shares are used. I think that was one of the primary motivations for introducing those new-fangled .lnk versions. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
