Warren Young: > By that reckoning, I’d rank *.lnk above Cygwin symlinks in many > regards. Why wouldn’t that work?
Handling Windows Shell Links (*.lnk) can be tricky: There's built-in logic to resolve links to missing targets (called "link tracking", can be disabled). That's why portability of *.lnk files may be limited across machines, and Fossil would have to keep the link information separately, and create *.lnk files as needed. https://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/magazine/2009.10.windowsconfidential.aspx Also, there's other *.lnk file options that may affect portability: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb762540.aspx --Florian _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
