Hi,
There is a fixed issue record, related to Cygwin symlinks -
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IVY-1165, saying that symlinks
under windows are not supported properly. So Ivy doesn't establish them,
but copies jars instead.
But would be nice to have creation of symbolic links under Windoozer(XP)
customizable, to be able to use e.g. Masatoshi Kimura's
<http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/hardlinkshellext.html#symboliclinksforwindowsxp>
symbolic link driver(and accompanying ln.exe command line tool).
These symlinks are handled by file system filter driver, so other
programs(e.g. javac.exe) believe they're accessing file the link points
to. And hard links under windows are also possible at least since
win2000 (called "junction points"|, fsutil hardlink create| ${lnk} ${file}).
Thanks,
Dmitriy
