[Scons-dev] New symlink copy support

anatoly techtonik techtonik at gmail.com
Sat Jul 26 18:36:58 EDT 2014


On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 6:33 PM, Gary Oberbrunner <garyo at oberbrunner.com> wrote:
> What's wrong with copying symlinks if that's what the user wants?

Nothing wrong if user know that he wants to copy symlinks. But I am sure
most users just want to copy ordinary files. So if somebody wants symlink
copy, it should be stated explicitly and not be a default behavior.

> I have some pure python Windows symlink code lying around somewhere too.
> Works fine on NFL.

os.symlink() is not that code and that is the code that unconditionally invoked
on Copy if I am not mistaken.


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