Jason R. Coombs added the comment: I've started work on restoring the directory detection in my bitbucket repo (https://bitbucket.org/jaraco/cpython-issue13772). I have added a regression test to capture the basic failure (where the link is not created in the current working directory) as well as a fix. The fix uses the [Microsoft Shell Lightweight Utility Functions](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb759844%28v=vs.85%29.aspx) which has one benefit of being tested and robust, but has two disadvantages, namely:
- it adds a link-time dependency. - it doesn't support forward-slashes, which the reference implementation does, and which I believe the CPython implementation should. Interestingly, it does detect the '/' character as a separator - it just doesn't treat it as one when stripping the trailing path. Given these disadvantages, I'm inclined to write custom functions to support the directory detection. Any suggestions are appreciated. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue13772> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
