Ollie Walsh added the comment:
PS that should be os.readlink()
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Ollie Walsh 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 agree.
New submission from Ollie Walsh :
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 apparently Solaris) they are
