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Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2016 04:16:31 +0300
From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon AT yandex DOT ru>
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Greetings, David Macek!

>> As i understand Cygwin will soon no longer support Windows XP resp.
>> 2003. This means that only Windows versions with native symbolic link
>> functionality will be supported after that. Would it be possible to use
>> only native symbolic links throughout esp. during setup.exe?

> Short answer: No.

> Long answer:

> There are limitations to NTFS symlinks, other than OS support, that make
> them incompatible with POSIX symlinks. See
> <https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#pathnames-symlinks> and
> <https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/wiki/Symbolic-Links> for more information.

There's limitations, yes. But what do you mean by "incompatibility" ?


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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Wednesday, August 10, 2016 04:16:00

Sorry for my terrible english...


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