On 09/28/17 21:34, Scott Robison wrote:
There is a winsymlink branch I created some time ago. Hasn't been kept up to date (I didn't need it, just thought it might be useful for feature parity) but I could take a look at it if you were interested. Or you could.
I had a peek. I know Windows NT derivatives allow symlinks to directories but was not aware any version of Windows allowed symlinks to files. What is the status of that?
Having symlinks in Windows may seem cool at first, but it would actually be counterproductive without a good way to edit them. If Fossil is the only program on hand that can create, change, or unlink them, it might as well not even try.
With the design I'm working toward, symlinks could be created, changed, or unlinked by editing the link file to contain its target and/or by editing manifest.symlinks to contain or not contain the link file name.
Plus, the project I'm doing has to work all the way back to Windows 2000 and (maybe, possibly, unconfirmed) Windows 98. While it's not the end of the world if there are some platforms which can't be used as a build or development platform, right now I have it so that any supported system is fully capable of developing for all supported systems: Linux for Windows, Windows for Linux, etc. Therefore I do not want to rely on features that aren't bog standard throughout every version of Windows, 95 onward because long filenames.
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