Luke Sampson

WinSW sounds like it would be useful for programs that don't know how to run as a Windows service. Is that necessary though? If it only needs to work with...

Did I screw something up in the Unbound example above? It seemed to work for me, and their offical Windows installer installs it as a service. I would have thought...

Roger that. You've convinced me that WinSW is the way to go.

Sorry, I just got back from holiday. This is looking promising. I share @deevus's sentiment that it would be very nice to do it in JSON and generate XML. Nice...

Directory junctions would work well for persistent data directories. This way apps don't have to be configured to use a special directory, they can just use their default. If we...

For testing updates, does `scoop update path\to\app.json` work? There is a call to [locate](https://github.com/lukesampson/scoop/blob/master/lib/install.ps1#L11) in `install_app` that should get work out that this is updating from the local path.

Agreed @deevus 👍

That would be very nice to have, @deevus. Could we use `git diff --no-index path/to/persist/php.ini path/to/install/php.ini` to diff?

That's great that it works for MariaDB. I wonder if this error is not so much because of the directory junction, but because there are already files in the node_modules...

Oh okay. That's interesting. And disappointing. It would be a shame if we have to give up on junctions and go back to something like the old travelling directories. I...