-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 03/18/2011 03:20 PM, P.J. Eby wrote: > 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.
Could the config file contain an optional hint for finding the "right" stdlib in cases where the binary copy had been made? I realize that parsing a config file *without* the stdlib is painful: perhaps looking for a line starting with 'stdlib =' would be enough? Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 tsea...@palladion.com Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk2DzZUACgkQ+gerLs4ltQ6YtgCfcXlvVYLfwaLLfbAkF9YzOzog 9ekAnAhVygL2APAWR+Cd5h5ePEYblbBN =wazt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
