From: Colin Sampaleanu <colinml1@...>
Date: 2003-04-11T01:49:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Versioning prototype for discussion

ahoward wrote:

>On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, John Johnson wrote:
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>>On Tue, 2003-04-08 at 18:42, Mauricio Fern�ndez wrote:
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>>>On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 06:36:25AM +0900, Phil Tomson wrote:
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>>>>Disadvantages?
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>>>It's a lot of work if you consider
>>>http://raa.ruby-lang.org/list.rhtml?name=library
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>>Looks like that depends on the file system being able to do links.
>>Some (Windows) can't.
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>i have not considered windows yet - but my first thought is that you could
>just do a copy instead of a link.
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>i really only use *nix and irix, but seems to me windows makes shortcuts -
>aren't these links?
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>-a
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Actually you can do links on NTFS (and thus Windows 2000 and Windows XP 
when using NTFS partitions). The APIs however are not very well known, 
and Microsoft itself does not provide tools outside of the Resource Kit 
which manipulate them, but tools are available (such as from 
SysInternals for example).