[Python-Dev] [PEPs] Rebooting PEP 394 (aka Support the /usr/bin/python2 symlink upstream) (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Sun Jul 24 23:21:06 CEST 2011

On Sun, 24 Jul 2011 23:16:55 +0200 Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

I think the recommendation should be symbolic links for all systems. Hard links are generally harder to discover, while it is trivial to find out that a given file is a symbolink link, and to which other file. The optimization is probably not useful in the real world (our executables are relatively small, and people worried about a couple of megabytes can always go for the shared library option).

Oh, I don't even know why I thought hard links would be a size optimization anyway. I guess I thought "file copy" instead of "symbolic link".

Regards

Antoine.

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