New submission from Garen garen.par...@gmail.com:
The documentation for os.path.islink says:
Return True if path refers to a directory entry that is a symbolic link.
Always False if symbolic links are not supported.
But what does supported mean? Supported by what? Supported by the OS
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Garen Parham garen.par...@gmail.com added the comment:
Once Python gets native support for lzma/xz like it does for zlib, bzip2 it
could switch to using it for bundles and remote transfers. See:
http://mercurial.selenic.com/bts/issue1463
With lzma/xz being able to compress so much better
Garen garen.par...@gmail.com added the comment:
Ugh, can't edit previous message. Meant to say:
Once Python gets native support for lzma/xz like it does for zlib and bzip2,
Mercurial could switch to using it for bundles and remote transfers.
For platforms with native support in-kernel (e.g
