[ITP] FUSE 2.8

Bill Zissimopoulos billziss@navimatics.com
Mon Jul 18 19:15:00 GMT 2016


On 7/17/16, 2:18 PM, Marco Atzeri wrote:

>On 17/07/2016 03:02, Bill Zissimopoulos wrote:
>> This package adds FUSE 2.8 support to Cygwin. FUSE is the well-known
>> "Filesystem in Userspace" project for Linux and other platforms: [FUSE].
>>
>>[snip]
>>
>> Which brings me to a large caveat with this package. The package has an
>> external dependency on my own open source project called WinFsp
>>[WINFSP].
>
>libusb0 has similar requirements
>
>Extract from the setup.ini
>-------------------------------------------------------------------
>message: libusb0 "In order to use libusb0, you must download and run the
>LibUSB-Win32 driver installer from:
>https://sourceforge.net/projects/libusb-win32/files/libusb-win32-releases/
>1.2.6.0/libusb-win32-devel-filter-1.2.6.0.exe"
>---------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>similar  mDNSResponder and avahi.

Great. It is good to know that this is not as large a caveat as I thought
it was.

>> 2. Accept the FUSE cygport package, but require that the package
>>downloads
>> and installs the WinFsp MSI (perhaps as part of its post install
>>process).
>
>That will be complicated, I prefer #1

I also prefer #1.

Bill



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