Jeremy Bettis wrote: > I'd like to short-circut this symlink discussion here, it is nice that > all of you non-Windows developers have found the Junction stuff in the > microsoft documentation, but that is simply not a real world pratical > solution.
He, he, :-) this is actually the first month in the past 7 years that this title fits me! > Trying to make windows look or act like unix is a hopeless > task. It will always be problamatic. I have been using OPENSTEP for > windows the first beta came out in 1995, and NeXT never had any problems > adapting for a non-symlink world. > > Unless you personally have tried creating junction (or reparse) points > on windows hand have experienced success, please let's not go any > farther down this line of thought. Actually I don't believe OPENSTEP in 1995 had the option of them at the time. But granted I never coded junctions and I can well imagine that they cause more harm than good. Realize that before you delete a real directory you have to traverse it to break potential junctions before removing it even if the directory you wish to remove is a real directory as removing a junction below it will delete the contents of the junction (or reparse or whatever it's called). I'll leave it up to those who feel responsible for -make to decide which route to go wrt to frameworks on windows. Cheers, David _______________________________________________ Gnustep-dev mailing list Gnustep-dev@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnustep-dev
