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From: | Jeremy Bettis |
Subject: | Re: Frameworks on windows. |
Date: | Tue, 28 Jun 2005 07:30:18 -0500 |
To: <address@hidden> Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 11:52 PM Subject: Re: Frameworks on windows.
Jeremy Bettis wrote:Let me share a few ideas here before I send in a patch so I can judge the likelyhood of it being accepted.Assumptions: *) Frameworks depend heavily on symbolic links. (in gnustep-make) *) Windows (Mingw environment) has no symbolic linksYou are misinformed. There is a lot of misinformation Re: symbolic and hard links under Windows. It only works when using NTFS under XP, however, which is where we start to have problems.
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. 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.
-Jeremy
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