Re: new port: and the winner is....
On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 03:18:43PM +0200, A Mennucc1 wrote:
> > I have then decided for the name of the new port: I have
> > decided to stick to
> > canonical Debian architecture name= win
>
> I'm not going to comment on this shameless namespace pollution.
>
> > ----what needs to be discussed
>
> You failed to mention what you are going to do to tackle the questions
> of permissions mapping and symlinks.
Symlinks are implemented in Cygwin itself (as shortcuts, for those who
care).
I don't know about permissions.
> Without support for these, you
> would have to reimplement an inane number of maintainer scripts, and
> that simply is not an option. Probably a bunch of other things that
> win32 environments lack as well. (No _way_ could you use a fat32
> filesystem; ntfs is required).
We could include that as part of the installation requirements for
Debian/w32...
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