Re: asdf and windows .lnk files

"Gary King" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> I vote for incorporating this patch; anything that makes ASDF easier
> and more transparent to use is -- IMO -- a good thing.  If the manner
> in which cygwin handles it's symbolic links is documented somewhere,
> then perhaps we could use a similar patch to handle them too. Is
> anyone on this list familiar with cygwin innards?

Not particularly familiar with Cygwin innards, but see
  http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.api.html#faq.api.symlinks
Modern cygwins create Windows Shortcuts; unless the .lnk patch is pickier
about the format than Windows is, it should be able to handle those as well.

*tests theory* Aaaannnd, it appears to work--with one small caveat: clisp
doesn't like when a pathname's :type contains a period ".", so I had to
  - :name name :type "asd.lnk" :case :local)))
  + :name (format nil "~a.asd" name) :type "lnk" :case :local)))
Ugh.




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