On Wed, Sep 8, 2021 at 4:24 PM LIU Hao <lh_mo...@126.com> wrote: > > 在 2021-09-06 19:26, Glenn Burkhardt 写道: > > > > Why won't anyone answer my question about how to submit patches or pull > > requests, instead of making > > spurious, erroneous comments on the merits of a submission? Wasn't the > > rigidity of Earnie //Boyd to > > accept contributions and suggestions for improvements the reason for the > > fork of MinGW-w64 from > > MinGW years ago? > > > > My presumption is that we haven't formally dropped Windows XP support, which > had no symlink support. > Only since Vista have symlinks be supported, their creation requires admin > priviledges, which is not > Linux users normally expect. Unless these distinctions are resolved, it would > be unlikely that we > accept symlink support.
for me, needing administrator privileges is a no go. Also, suppose that symlinks are implemented, should we also add lstat() and other Unix functions that have a symlink as argument ? Vincent Torri _______________________________________________ Mingw-w64-public mailing list Mingw-w64-public@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public
