On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 3:03 AM, Ned Deily <n...@acm.org> wrote: > I think adding the requirement to mandate hard link vs soft link usage > is an unnecessary and unwarranted attempt at optimization. For > instance, IIRC, the OS X installers don't use any hard links: that may > complicate the install, plus hard links on OS X HFS* file systems are a > bit of a kludge and not necessarily more efficient than symlinks. It's > not a big deal but perhaps the wording should be changed to make a > suggestion about hard links vs syminks rather than mandate which should > be used.
Ah, OK. The wording's been changed so that symbolic links will be installed on Mac OS X and hard links elsewhere (although maybe symbolic links are also better on certain other platforms; I'm not sure). I do think that specific instructions must be given (rather than just a suggestion) because it's indicating what must be done to CPython. The instructions *should* be as close as possible to what the installer already does, but I'm not entirely sure what the installer does by default, and the hard-link recommendation was based off a cursory inspection of my own system, so further input from yourself and the rest of python-dev would be appreciated. Nick, can you please apply the patch (will be sent in the following email) to the PEP SVN as soon as we get the hard-link issue is figured out? Alternatively, could you provide me write access to just the pep-0394.txt file so I can update it myself? Thanks. -Kerrick Staley _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com