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Subject: Re: [Ping Python maintainer]: enhancement request
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On 5/1/07, Christopher Faylor  wrote:
> On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 08:06:23AM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote:
> >OK.  Should I copy or make a hard link?
>
> Before you do this, I have a question.  Why is this important now when you've
> apparently been doing this for many years?  This isn't the only package which
> makes symlinks to executables.  And, since, AFAIK, setup.exe doesn't understand
> hard links it means that you really do have to make a copy.  If you make a copy
> you stand the chance of having python.exe out of sync with the thing that it is
> supposed to be pointing to.

You could avoid that particular problem by making a hardlink in a
postinstall script, right?

Lev

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