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Nascif Abousalh-Neto commented on IVY-353:
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I can see the code in the source code distribution for 2.0-alpha-2, but I don't
see the documentation of the new attribute ("symlink") in the Ant task
documentation at
http://incubator.apache.org/ivy/history/trunk/use/retrieve.html.
> ivy:retrieve should be able to create symlinks
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> Key: IVY-353
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IVY-353
> Project: Ivy
> Issue Type: Wish
> Components: Core
> Affects Versions: 1.4.1
> Environment: Linux
> Reporter: John Williams
> Assignee: Gilles Scokart
> Fix For: 2.0.0-alpha-2
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> Attachments: retrieve-symlinks.patch
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> It would be helpful if the "retrieve" task had an option to create symlinks
> on systems that support them. The symlinks could point to either the cache
> or a local repository (is useOrigin=true).
> My company has a very long number of small projects, many of which depend on
> some fairly large artifacts, so copying everything would be too slow and use
> up too much disk space to be practical. (We work around this now by using
> the "cachepath" task for instead of retrieve.)
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