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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>XStow</title>
</head>
<body>
<table width="100%">
<tr>
<td width="33%">
<A href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/xstow"> <IMG src="http://sourceforge.net/sflogo.php?group_id=54553&type=5" width="210" height="62" border="0" alt="SourceForge Logo"></A>
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<td width="33%">
<div align=center>
<h1>XStow</h1>
</div>
</td>
<td>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<div align=center>
<b>Current stable release: 0.5.1</b><br/>
<b>Current unstable release: 0.6.1-unstable</b><br/>
</div>
<blockquote>
<h2>News</h2>
<p>
<i>2008-09-27</i>
</p>
<p>
Ported the unstable release to gcc 4.x series.
</p>
<p>
<i>2005-03-06</i>
</p>
<p>
During the last 2 years I made some small bugfixes, added
small features and always thought that the changes are too
small for publishing a new release. But all together these
changes are to heavy for simple publishing it as a stable
release.</br>
So here it is: a preview <b>unstable</b> release of something
that may will become version 1.0.0.<br/>
From now on all unstable releases are <i>marked</i> explicit
as unstable!</br>
Sources are available on <a
href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/xstow">Sourceforge
Download Page</a>
</p>
<p>
<i>2003-03-02</i>
</p>
<p>
XStow is now integrated in the ports system of
<a href="http://www.freshports.org/sysutils/xstow/">Free BSD</a>.
<br>
</p>
<p>
<i>2002-12-31</i>
</p>
<p>
XStow is now available on
<a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/xstow.html">debian/unstable</a>.
<br>
Thanks to Mats Rynge for uploading the package.
</p>
<h2>About</h2>
<p>
XStow is a replacement of <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/stow/">GNU Stow</a>
written in C++. It supports all features of Stow with some extensions.
</p>
<p>
XStow as GNU Stow, are programs for managing the installation of
software packages, keeping them separate (/usr/local/stow/emacs
vs. /usr/local/stow/perl, for example) while making them appear to be
installed in the same place (/usr/local).
</p>
<p>
Stow requires Perl. But what's on systems where no Perl is available, or not
yet installed? I tried compiling Stow with perlcc, but it failed.
</p>
<p>
For compiling XStow a C++ compiler and a system with a couple of POSIX
functions is required. It does not depend on an interpreter. Static
compilation eg.: for resque disks is possible.
</p>
<p>
XStow installs packages in exact the same way like stow, so you
even can start a Linux From Scratch installation with XStow and when
Perl is running, you can continue installation by using GNU Stow.
</p>
<p>
Even the command line options are compatible.
</p>
<i>But there are:</i>
<h2>Special Features</h2>
<i>
All of them breaking compatibility with Stow!<br>
But who cares... :)
</i>
<ul>
<li>Creation of symlinks with absolute path names.</li>
<li>Traversal link support. <i>(create a link from /usr/share/man to /usr/man)</i></li>
<li>Multiple stow directories support.</li>
<li>Shell pattern matching.</li>
<li>Regular Expressions Support.</li>
<li>Global settings via configuration files.</li>
<li>Automatically merging GNU-Info's 'dir' files.</li>
<li>...</li>
</ul>
<h2>Note</h2>
Even if there is the 'X' in XStow's name, it is a complete
command line based application. There is no X11 support in any way.
</blockquote>
<hr>
<div align=center>
<a href="xstow.html">Manpage XStow</a>
<a href="xstow.ini.html">Manpage xstow.ini</a>
<a href="merge-info.html">Manpage merge-info</a>
<a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/xstow">Sourceforge Page (download there)</a>
</div>
<hr>
<table width="100%">
<tr>
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<address>Martin Oberzalek <kingleo@gmx.at></address>
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Last modified: Sat Sep 27 10:56:52 CEST 2008
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