Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/03/02/06:21:20
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> From: Corinna Vinschen [mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 8:37 PM
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: Re: New symlinks
>
>
> My last email related to the symlinks==shortcuts discussion.
>
Agreed; mee too.
> IMO, the symlink==shortcut is a great new thing. I like them.
> I don't like them only because I wrote them but I like the
> way to have a better interoperability with native Windows
> tools (whichever direction).
I like them BOTH because YOU wrote it, so that I don't have to try to write
it myself :-) and because of the iteroperability.
>
> Nobody of the posters here could convince me that the way I have
> implemented them is bad or wrong. So I don't see a need to change
> the implementation.
Me neither!
>
> Especially I can't understand why most of the folks see problems
> which currently not has happened.
>
> Did you ever see technological progress when people
> only fearfully try to avoid any problem which could
> happen (perhaps)?
>
> Please, let's test this for a while first. If this mixes up
> things too much we can discuss this again or revert the change.
>
> We have a loss only if we never try it.
I agree 100% (and even more if it were possible).
Thanks for the good work,
Bernard
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