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From: Steve Ward <ward AT csail DOT mit DOT edu>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Symlinks don't work in python???
Reply-to: ward AT mit DOT edu
Message-Id: <E1DJHhk-0000GC-VY@cag.csail.mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 17:04:52 -0400


I just upgraded to cygwin 1.5.14 from 1.5.12, and python
(version 2.4 in both cases) stopped being able to import
thru symlinks.

Test case: in a directory containing a symlink to foo.py,

   python
   import foo

complains "no module named foo.py"; if I copy the file to .,
it imports fine.  Both worked in previous releases of cygwin.

Similarly, putting symlinks in site-packages no longer works.

Has some change to cygwin's handling of symlinks (since 1.5.12)
caused this problem?

Thanks for any light shed...

- Steve Ward


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