On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 4:42 PM Julian Foad <julian_at_foad.me.uk> wrote:
>
> Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> > Johan Corveleyn wrote on Fri, 27 Sep 2019 07:41 +00:00:
> >> And unfortunately on Windows symlinks are not supported, so I get
> >> "link .../nominate.pl" on the exported side vs. <entire contents of
> >> nominate.pl> on the other side. But I'm quite used to scrolling
> >> through that one. On *nix that won't be a problem I'm sure.
> >
> > Should we change tools/dist/dist.sh to delete nominate.pl before
> > rolling? It's not like anyone building a tarball is going to need that, and
> > it'll remove a step from your release testing.
>
> There are three symlinks (svnpubsub, svnwcsub and nominate.pl).
>
> Silently removing them doesn't seem like the ideal solution. IMO it
> would create more confusion than it solves.
>
> IMO, things that don't belong in a tarball don't belong in trunk. So,
> maybe the whole of tools/dist should be moved up a level out of trunk.
> But that doesn't help svnpubsub.
No problem. Probably best to leave things as they are now. It's not a
big deal at the moment.
Though if anyone would like to tackle symlink support on Windows ...
that'd be good :-).
--
Johan
Received on 2019-09-27 22:23:47 CEST