Re: Cygwin symlinks

On 3 October 2015 at 11:19, Bastian Eicher <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Sounds good. The non-Windows 0install command doesn't have any
>> commands for creating archives, but leaves that to separate tools. It
>> might even be worth contributing your patches to the Windows tar port.
>> That seems more logical than putting a tar-creator in 0install itself.
>
> There are two issues with using external tools for creating the archives on
> Windows:
>
>  Timestamps need to be stored in UTC for 0install, while almost all ZIP
> tools use the local timezone instead. This may be configurable for some
> archivers but the user has to know about this.
>
> Our special-case handling of executable flags in the .xbit file definitely
> does not get handled by any external archiver.
>
> So I was thinking it would be a good idea to have a command that creates an
> archive from a directory that will can be extracted exactly the same way it
> was by 0install. Perhaps this should be a feature of the .NET version of
> 0publish rather than 0install itself?

Yes, makes sense to put it there I think.


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