delorie.com/archives/browse.cgi | search |
X-Spam-Check-By: | sourceware.org |
Message-ID: | <ba40711f0705010650l41fae06cn5a3a1c814dd292e0@mail.gmail.com> |
Date: | Tue, 1 May 2007 09:50:31 -0400 |
From: | "Lev Bishop" <lev DOT bishop AT gmail DOT com> |
To: | cygwin AT cygwin DOT com |
Subject: | Re: [Ping Python maintainer]: enhancement request |
In-Reply-To: | <20070501133951.GB17841@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> |
MIME-Version: | 1.0 |
References: | <f137va$5ar$1 AT sea DOT gmane DOT org> <20070501120623 DOT GA3824 AT tishler DOT net> <20070501133951 DOT GB17841 AT trixie DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> |
Mailing-List: | contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm |
List-Id: | <cygwin.cygwin.com> |
List-Unsubscribe: | <mailto:cygwin-unsubscribe-archive-cygwin=delorie DOT com AT cygwin DOT com> |
List-Subscribe: | <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com> |
List-Archive: | <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/> |
List-Post: | <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> |
List-Help: | <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs> |
Sender: | cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com |
Mail-Followup-To: | cygwin AT cygwin DOT com |
Delivered-To: | mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com |
On 5/1/07, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 08:06:23AM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote: > >OK. Should I copy or make a hard link? > > Before you do this, I have a question. Why is this important now when you've > apparently been doing this for many years? This isn't the only package which > makes symlinks to executables. And, since, AFAIK, setup.exe doesn't understand > hard links it means that you really do have to make a copy. If you make a copy > you stand the chance of having python.exe out of sync with the thing that it is > supposed to be pointing to. You could avoid that particular problem by making a hardlink in a postinstall script, right? Lev -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
webmaster | delorie software privacy |
Copyright © 2019 by DJ Delorie | Updated Jul 2019 |