[ITP] stow

[Max Bowsher]

Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On May 16 14:30, Schulman.Andrew@epamail.epa.gov wrote:
>> Right.  I hadn't considered that, but since the Windows shortcut is
>> fundamentally broken, you're right that stowing won't work for DLLs, or
>> outside of the Cygwin environment.  (Philosophical question:  which
>> component of Windows deserves the blame for the failure of the Windows
>> shortcut?  The file system, the shortcut design, or the shell?)
>
> The filesystem and the OS for not supporting symbolic links.  Microsoft
> took an approach by implementing reparse points in W2K but since these
> reparse points only work for partitions and directories, it's still 
> broken.
>
>> http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/cygwin/stow/setup.hint
>> http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/cygwin/stow/stow-1.3.3-1.tar.bz2
>> http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/cygwin/stow/stow-1.3.3-1-src.tar.bz2
>
> Uploaded.

Umm.... Shouldn't someone have done a review first?
This *is* a new package.

Max.