> Le 26 juil. 2017 à 15:25, Jaikiran Pai <jai.forums2...@gmail.com> a écrit : > > I was looking into a JIRA related to symlinking in Ivy and realized that (for > reasons noted in the docs and the implementation) ourimplementation of > symlinking relies on launching a process from within the JVM to invoke a > shell command to create the symlinks. "retrieve" task is the only one that > deals with symlink creation, from what I can see. Furthermore, knowing that > this operation is expensive, we even had to introduce an additional optionfor > that task to allow "mass symlinking"[1] so that we launch a single process to > create N symlinks instead of N processes. > > In short, the current implementation of symlinking in Ivy is expensive for > reasons that have been known. Now that we have moved to Java 7, which has a > standard APIfor symlink creation[2], I think we should just change our > internal implementation to use this new standard API.Of course, we continue > to fail to create symlinks on systems that don't support it, just like we do > now, except that we let the Java API implementation handle those details. > > Furthermore, once we move to thisstandard API, I don't think we need the > "symlinkmass" option onthe retrieve task anymore since the whole purpose of > it was to avoid launching N processes. So I think we can deprecate that > option in the upcoming release. > > Any thoughts?
Sounds good to me. Nicolas --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org
