[Scons-dev] New symlink copy support

[William Blevins]

Yes, that was how the feature request was written and that is how it was
reviewed.  I think that Install should work that way too in order to
natively support versioned shared libraries in a rational manner.

I don't have any tests for copying from unix to windows in those cases.  I
imagine the default action would fail just like a "cp" from the commandline
would fail.

V/R,
William


On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 4:14 AM, anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Is it true that Copy now tries to copy symlinks by
> default?
>
> Symlinks is a can of worms. I'd avoid using them
> unless explicitly enables at all costs.
>
> 1. os.symlink is documented as unix only
> https://docs.python.org/2/library/os.html#os.symlink
> 2. even if os.symlink is present, it may fail
> (especially in shared folders mounted in VM)
> https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2014-July/028386.html
>
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> anatoly t.
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