X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Thorsten Kampe Subject: Re: [Ping Python maintainer]: enhancement request Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 19:56:54 +0100 Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: <20070501120623.GA3824@tishler.net> <20070501133951.GB17841@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <463747BC.3050002@cwilson.fastmail.fm> <20070501142125.GD17841@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <20070501183206.GA1464@tishler.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: MicroPlanet-Gravity/2.70.2067 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com * Jason Tishler (Tue, 01 May 2007 14:32:06 -0400) > On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 10:21:25AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > OTOH, I still don't see any reason not to tell people "you have to run > > bash first if you want to use python". > > This is the solution that I prefer. I think the best solution would be to make the Cygwin symlinks somehow "Windows compatible" - so Windows would be able to run those as if they were shortcuts. What about this "winsymlinks" Cygwin environment variable? The description says "if set, Cygwin creates symlinks as Windows shortcuts with a special header and the R/O attribute set. If not set, Cygwin creates symlinks as plain files with a magic number, a path and the system attribute set. Defaults to set". So why don't the symlinks "work" under Windows (despite being "created as Windows shortcuts with a special header")?? Thorsten -- 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/