Ollie Walsh <ollie.wa...@gmail.com> added the comment: Hi,
> As I said in the other bug, symlinks handling in not fully specified Yes. I've mostly submitted a bug report in case anybody else encounters the problem. > At present I am not sure if having symlinks in a distribution makes sense I agree. In my case symlinks are being used to restructure a large legacy module into smaller packages. When creating sdists the symlinks are dereferenced on another developer's host (OSX) and all is well but they on my host (Linux) I get packages with broken symlinks. > BTW the example you link to is not at all monkey-patching My mistake. When I worked around this issue I did monkey-patch sdist. I also just wrapped the source path is os.path.readlink() before hardlinking. I think the approach in that link is a much better solution so I have referred to it instead. -Ollie ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue15205> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
