[issue19792] pathlib does not support symlink in Windows XP

Steve Dower added the comment: Sounds good to me. -- resolution: -> wont fix status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python

[issue19792] pathlib does not support symlink in Windows XP

Mark Lawrence added the comment: I've read the entire issue and don't believe there's anything to be done here. Plus the originator says in msg204557 "But anyway feel free to close this ticket". -- components: +Windows nosy: +BreamoreBoy, steve.dower, zach.ware ___

[issue19792] pathlib does not support symlink in Windows XP

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: The 2.7-compatible version of pathlib explains why the code is structured this way: if sys.getwindowsversion()[:2] >= (6, 0) and sys.version_info >= (3, 2): from nt import _getfinalpathname else: supports_symlinks = False _getfin

[issue19792] pathlib does not support symlink in Windows XP

Brian Curtin added the comment: If a platform does not actually support symlinks, and XP does not actually support symlinks for any usual definition of an operating system supporting a feature, then I'm not sure why pathlib is doing something wrong to make it work more reasonably in that case.

[issue19792] pathlib does not support symlink in Windows XP

Vajrasky Kok added the comment: I agree we should not go "extra mile" to add feature for Windows XP, a 12 year old software and soon to be "put down" a couple months forward. But in this case, Antoine goes "extra mile" to prevent symbolic link support in Windows XP. And it's not just him that

[issue19792] pathlib does not support symlink in Windows XP

Brian Curtin added the comment: If users want to do that hack to get symlinks on XP, they should probably just manage doing so on their own. It's not something we'd take care of installing and running via our installer, so I don't think pathlib should be changed to work for it. -- __

[issue19792] pathlib does not support symlink in Windows XP

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > Also, how many people uses pathlib in Python 3.4 in Windows XP with > third-party drivers enabling symbolic link support? Should be small. I've never heard of third-party driver for symlink link support before (granted, I'm not a Windows user). I'm willing to

[issue19792] pathlib does not support symlink in Windows XP

New submission from Vajrasky Kok: In Lib/pathlib.py, we got this "problematic" code: if sys.getwindowsversion()[:2] >= (6, 0): from nt import _getfinalpathname else: supports_symlinks = False _getfinalpathname = None This code means if the windows version is