Symlinks definitely work on OS X, and there are also OS 9 style
"Aliases", using the data/resource forks, etc.
- Jeff
On Wednesday, July 23, 2003, at 03:23 PM, pll@lanminds.com wrote:
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>>>>>> On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, "Bill" == Bill Comisky wrote:
>
> Bill> I didn't see any ENHANCEMENT issues open for a 'svn ln', and
> Bill> I'm having trouble searching the mailing list at the moment.
> Bill> Is there any reason something like this would be a really bad
> Bill> idea?
>
> It's been discussed before, the real problem seems to be how to
> implement symlinks in a portable way. Basically, UNIX (and it's
> variants/derivatives) is the only platform where the concept of
> symlinks really exists. Windows has "shortcuts", but they're not at
> all the same as symlinks (AFAIK). Then, there's MacOS. I don't know
> if OS X supports symlinks or not, one would hope, since it's BSD
> based. However, I recently heard they also somehow managed to keep
> the data/resource forks concept alive in OS X as well.
>
> So, I don't think that it's a bad idea, I just think it's a difficult
> idea to implement correctly in a portable manner.
>
> I would definitely love such a feature myself :)
>
> HTH,
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> Paul
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