On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 6:50 AM, Kenneth Loafman <kenn...@loafman.com>wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Kenneth Loafman <kenn...@loafman.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> When I hit F3 to bring up a function edit, PyDev claims it cannot find
>> the source if the function has a symbolic link in the path.  Everything
>> else works perfectly as it should, yet F3 claims the resource does not
>> exist.
>>
>> I can get it to work by using a File >> New >> Folder and making a
>> pseudo-link through that, but that has its own problems since it does not
>> create a symbolic link in the file system.  So, to get manual tests to
>> work, I have to create the symbolic link as well.  The problem with doing
>> so is that when I try to debug, PyDev complains that I have two copies of
>> the function in the workspace and for every F5, F6, or F8 I hit, I have to
>> chose the non-linked one, a real PITA.
>>
>> Looks like I just reported two bugs here.  Should I file them, or is
>> there a workaround I should try first?
>>
>
> Just a followup, the problem appears to be only if the initial directory
> is a symbolic link, like so,
>
> Trying this again... here's the setup that breaks:

    ~/workspace/linked_dir

If I change it to:

    ~/workspace/normal_dir/linked_subdirs

it works just fine.  I suspect that the code is looking for a file or a
directory and failing to resolve the symbolic link as it should.

...Thanks,
...Ken
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