Github user dkuppitz commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/tinkerpop/pull/444
The gist was that you could live without the 2 additional files, but your
life would be affected by an everlasting sadness. Hence we concluded that we
keep the symbolic links.
However, I still need one more vote to merge this PR.
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