----- Original Message -----
From: "Alex Perez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
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 links
You 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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