On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 12:02, Thomas Loy <thomas....@cbeyond.net> wrote: > Agreed, but another benefit of any Unix OS is the ability to use symbolic > links. They aren't in Windows and they give some added stability to some > things you may do such as link a specific version name to a more generic name > you use in the build script. This makes maintenance long term a lot easier. > I'm working on a bunch of scripts right now where we had a version specific > taskdef jar that I'm now using a symlink to create a generic jar name -- so I > won't have to edit all the taskdef jar names in the scripts again.
Symlink support is a client issue. AFAIK, a Subversion repository hosted on Windows can store & manage symlinks from working copies created/updated on non-Windows clients.
