Re: Frameworks on windows.

[Jeremy Bettis]

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From: "Alex Perez" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 11:52 PM
Subject: Re: Frameworks on windows.


> Jeremy Bettis wrote:
> > Let me share a few ideas here before I send in a patch so I can judge the 
> > likelyhood of it being accepted.
> >  Assumptions:
> > *) Frameworks depend heavily on symbolic links. (in gnustep-make)
> > *) Windows (Mingw environment) has no symbolic links
>
> You are misinformed. There is a lot of misinformation Re: symbolic and 
> hard links under Windows. It only works when using NTFS under XP, however, 
> which is where we start to have problems.

I'd like to short-circut this symlink discussion here, it is nice that all 
of you non-Windows developers have found the Junction stuff in the microsoft 
documentation, but that is simply not a real world pratical solution. 
Trying to make windows look or act like unix is a hopeless task.  It will 
always be problamatic.  I have been using OPENSTEP for windows the first 
beta came out in 1995, and NeXT never had any problems adapting for a 
non-symlink world.

Unless you personally have tried creating junction (or reparse) points on 
windows hand have experienced success, please let's not go any farther down 
this line of thought.
-Jeremy