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 am not sure if having symlinks in a distribution makes sense, and if the install command (or platform-specific systems for bdists) supports it. I am not sure what the correct behavior would be here.
(BTW the example you link to is not at all monkey-patching, but clean extension of distutils using the provided hooks. :) ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue15205> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
