Re: Reviving: [PATCH] [cygwin|mingw] Create UAC manifest files.

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Charles,

* Charles Wilson wrote on Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 04:31:11AM CEST:
> But at least that's less invasive (in terms of the patch upstream
> projects would have to accept to their Makefile.am's) than all-custom.

IIRC this problem affected something like 4 or 5 packages in the whole
Cygwin tree, and can be worked around by providing manifests for
installed programs, and renaming uninstalled ones (and using
$(transform) to rename back upon installation).  It is not a pressing
problem by any measure, and not *the* problem where minimizing
invasiveness is paramount.  OTOH it is one making head hurt with API
uglicity and awkwardness.

I don't want to sound pejorative or shoot this down, just get those
priorities right among the list of things to do.

Thanks,
Ralf