Éric Araujo <mer...@netwok.org> added the comment: AFAICT using hard links only serves to save up a little time and disk space; it seems to me that always copying would solve one or two bugs at a small cost (not so small for large projects, I don’t know). Could this impact setup scripts? Maybe if os.link were monkey-patched and expected to be called. I could ask on distutils-sig.
In #15205 Ollie noted this: “distutils2 appears to always copy instead of hardlinking resolving all of these issues”. That would be because d2 uses shutil.copytree and distutils.util.copy_file (yes, a function from distutils1 because of some Windows issue :(). ---------- assignee: tarek -> eric.araujo nosy: +lemburg, olliewalsh, pitrou stage: -> needs patch versions: +Python 3.3 -Python 3.1 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue8876> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
