Florian Berger <fber...@florian-berger.de> added the comment: Hi,
thanks for the reply. I see your point with the legacy distutils. > I hope that this explanation will let you see why I’m reluctant to > change distutils: we don’t know what code we will break if we improve > symlink handling. So, do you think adding a warning about symlink > handling issues in the docs would be enough? Given the constraints, yes, it would be good to have that warning in the docs. Even better would be a runtime hint like Notice: gztar target will preserve symbolic links. or Notice: zip target will dereference symbolic links. > For distutils2 however, compatibility concerns do not apply yet, > so we’re free to fix and document symlink handling. That would be very welcome. I am afraid I will not be able to contribute code anytime soon, but it would be great if the regular developers could keep an eye on this inconsistency. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue12585> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
