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
Ollie Walsh ollie.wa...@gmail.com 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
Ollie Walsh ollie.wa...@gmail.com added the comment:
PS that should be os.readlink()
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Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org 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
Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org added the comment:
(Hm OK “del os.link” is definitely a hack :)
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New submission from Ollie Walsh ollie.wa...@gmail.com:
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
Changes by Eric V. Smith e...@trueblade.com:
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