Hi Maarten, I had done some digging and come across https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IVY-1165 from about a year ago that seemed to suggest that this was possible? Or am I missing some later issue that blocked it from working again?
-Jonathan On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 5:34 PM, Maarten Coene <maarten_co...@yahoo.com>wrote: > Hi Jonathan, > > sorry I didn't think of it before, but as far as I know, Ivy doesn't > support > Cygwin symlinking. > > Maarten > > > > ________________________________ > From: Jonathan Williams <spamhammer1...@gmail.com> > To: ivy-user@ant.apache.org > Sent: Thu, January 13, 2011 5:15:27 PM > Subject: Re: Retrieve symlink="true" on Windows > > Hi Maarten, > > My apologies for not responding more promptly. I got sidetracked from this > over > the holidays. Here's an example of console output from the ivy:retreive > ant > call. I see at the bottom of the log that it thinks the symlink failed to > create and throws an exception, even though this is not the case. > > > On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 6:29 PM, Maarten Coene <maarten_co...@yahoo.com> > wrote: > > Could you send us the console output when running Ant in verbose mode? > > > >Maarten > > > > > > > > > > > >________________________________ > >From: Jonathan Williams <spamhammer1...@gmail.com> > >To: ivy-user@ant.apache.org > >Sent: Thu, December 9, 2010 6:14:38 PM > >Subject: Retrieve symlink="true" on Windows > > > > > >Hi, > > > >We are attempting to implement our build on Windows after having the > ant+ivy > >solution working well on Linux for about a week now. We were hoping to use > >symlinking for compile-time dependencies as on Linux, but we are getting > odd > >behavior. After jumping through a few hoops with Cygwin 1.7, Ivy appears > to be > >creating working symlinks in our classpath directory for each project. > However > >it also appears to be copying the .jar files also! (see attached jpg) > > > >Has anyone seen this before or have experience with using Ivy symlinks on > >Windows? Thanks. > > > >-Jonathan > > > > > > > > > > > > >
