[Scons-dev] New symlink copy support

[Bill Deegan]

William,

Jason and his team have created.
"Parts is an extension to SCons. It augments SCons by adding new concepts
to aid with the development, organization and maintenance of large
projects. Parts provides a standardized way to create plug-and-play
components within or between products, saving time and development costs. "

parts.tigris.org

-Bill



On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 4:50 PM, William Blevins <wblevins001 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I agree. In Parts we added code to allow Symlinks to work as a first class
>> object ( ie a node) In Scons. It seems to work just fine. As long as some
>> simple rules are followed it we have not had issues on windows and or
>> linux/mac at this point.
>
>
> I'm trying to keep up here, but I'm missing some context.  What is Parts?
>
> V/R,
> William
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 11:17 AM, Kenny, Jason L <jason.l.kenny at intel.com>
> wrote:
>
>>  I agree. In Parts we added code to allow Symlinks to work as a first
>> class object ( ie a node) In Scons. It seems to work just fine. As long as
>> some simple rules are followed it we have not had issues on windows and or
>> linux/mac at this point.
>>
>>
>>
>> Jason
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* Scons-dev [mailto:scons-dev-bounces at scons.org] *On Behalf Of *Gary
>> Oberbrunner
>> *Sent:* Saturday, July 26, 2014 10:33 AM
>> *To:* SCons Dev List
>>
>> *Subject:* Re: [Scons-dev] New symlink copy support
>>
>>
>>
>> What's wrong with copying symlinks if that's what the user wants?
>>
>> I have some pure python Windows symlink code lying around somewhere too.
>> Works fine on NFL.
>>
>> --
>> Gary Oberbrunner
>> (sent from my Android)
>>
>> On Jul 26, 2014 10:14 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
>>
>> --
>> anatoly t.
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