FearTheCowboy

(cross-posted from the mailing list) As I mentioned in my last post, CoApp’s design relies heavily on the use of Symbolic Links (symlinks)—a feature which is implemented fairly well in Windows Vista and beyond, but is missing in earlier versions of Windows. Cygwin tried to work around the limitation by using shortcuts (.LNK files), which [...]

(cross-posted from the mailing list) When CoApp packages are installed, they install into a predetermined location based on the package metadata—this ensures that all packages play by the rules, and allow us to use Windows features to support things side-by-side installation of applications (ie, havin’ two versions of the same application installed concurrently), and also [...]