On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 11:48 PM, Ivan Andrus <darthand...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I don't think that's actually the case. If the disk image we > distribute is HFS+ it should allow us to hard link directories so that > each application can have it's own copy of the sage directory, without > any real duplication (and we can have a copy at the top level as > well). Once you copy it onto your own disk the links will probably be > broken though, which could be bad. I wonder if zip files can preserve > hard linked directories... I spoke too soon. I knew Time Machine uses hardlinks to directories, and I assumed users could as well. According to http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1432540/creating-directory-hard-links-in-macos-x that is not true in Snow Leopard, and not true from the shell in Leopard. Nevertheless there must be some suitably clever way to get the same outcome. -Ivan -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
