[issue15205] distutils dereferences symlinks on Mac OS X but not on Linux

2021-02-03 Thread Steve Dower
Steve Dower added the comment: Distutils is now deprecated (see PEP 632) and all tagged issues are being closed. From now until removal, only release blocking issues will be considered for distutils. If this issue does not relate to distutils, please remove the component and reopen it. If y

[issue15205] distutils dereferences symlinks on Mac OS X but not on Linux

2012-07-04 Thread Ollie Walsh
Ollie Walsh added the comment: PS that should be os.readlink() -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscrib

[issue15205] distutils dereferences symlinks on Mac OS X but not on Linux

2012-07-04 Thread Ollie Walsh
Ollie Walsh added the comment: Hi, > As I said in the other bug, symlinks handling in not fully specified Yes. I've mostly submitted a bug report in case anybody else encounters the problem. > At present I am not sure if having symlinks in a distribution makes sense I agree. In my case syml

[issue15205] distutils dereferences symlinks on Mac OS X but not on Linux

2012-07-02 Thread Éric Araujo
Éric Araujo added the comment: (Hm OK “del os.link” is definitely a hack :) -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing li

[issue15205] distutils dereferences symlinks on Mac OS X but not on Linux

2012-07-02 Thread Éric Araujo
Éric Araujo added the comment: As I said in the other bug, symlinks handling in not fully specified: some functions (like copy_file and copy_tree) have arguments to control copy/link/symlink, but the higher-level commands don’t expose that choice to the user. At present I am not sure if havi

[issue15205] distutils dereferences symlinks on Mac OS X but not on Linux

2012-06-27 Thread Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
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[issue15205] distutils dereferences symlinks on Mac OS X but not on Linux

2012-06-27 Thread Eric V. Smith
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[issue15205] distutils dereferences symlinks on Mac OS X but not on Linux

2012-06-27 Thread Ollie Walsh
New submission from Ollie Walsh : Hi, This is related to #12585. Distutils sdist builds a package tree using hardlinks to the source if supported by the OS. This is then tarred/zipped/etc... If the source contains symbolic links to external files: On Linux (and apparently Solaris) they are n