On Tue, 2022-05-03 at 21:07 -0400, ph h wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > Sadly, readlink is not a POSIX standard utility; otherwise we would
> > already be using it in place of resolvelinks().
> 
> Thank you so much. That's the constraint that Sage must face.
> 
> BTW, which of the platforms that Sage supports do not have readlink?
> 

I think the macOS/BSD implementation does something different or is
missing the "-f" flag or something like that.

We would have the same problem with any shell function though. Python
packaging just isn't equipped to handle it, and probably never will be.

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