At 02:44 PM 3/18/2011 -0400, Carl Meyer wrote:
Apparently (I am Windows-ignorant) recent Windows versions do
support symlinks?

Technically, some Windows filesystems can support this. In practice, no user-visible tools actually support making or using them sanely, AFAIK.

So, I suggest promoting symlinks as the standard way, with binary-copying being a Windows-only workaround.
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