[Python-Dev] In-Python virtualisation and packaging (original) (raw)

Vinay Sajip vinay_sajip at yahoo.co.uk
Mon Jun 13 15:42:06 CEST 2011


Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan gmail.com> writes:

You should be able to use symlinks even on Windows these days (although granted they won't on portable media that uses a non-symlink friendly filesystem, regardless of OS).

Plus I'm not sure Windows XP supports true symlinks - I think you have to make do with "junctions" a.k.a. "reparse points" which are more shambolic than symbolic ;-) I know symlinks are available on Vista, Windows Server 2008 and later, but XP is still very common.

Regards,

Vinay Sajip



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