On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 4:42 PM Julian Foad <jul...@foad.me.uk> wrote: > > Daniel Shahaf wrote: > > Johan Corveleyn wrote on Fri, 27 Sep 2019 07:41 +00:00: > >> And unfortunately on Windows symlinks are not supported, so I get > >> "link .../nominate.pl" on the exported side vs. <entire contents of > >> nominate.pl> on the other side. But I'm quite used to scrolling > >> through that one. On *nix that won't be a problem I'm sure. > > > > Should we change tools/dist/dist.sh to delete nominate.pl before > > rolling? It's not like anyone building a tarball is going to need that, and > > it'll remove a step from your release testing. > > There are three symlinks (svnpubsub, svnwcsub and nominate.pl). > > Silently removing them doesn't seem like the ideal solution. IMO it > would create more confusion than it solves. > > IMO, things that don't belong in a tarball don't belong in trunk. So, > maybe the whole of tools/dist should be moved up a level out of trunk. > But that doesn't help svnpubsub.
No problem. Probably best to leave things as they are now. It's not a big deal at the moment. Though if anyone would like to tackle symlink support on Windows ... that'd be good :-). -- Johan
