Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Progress on Universal Select Tool

["Sérgio Almeida" <mephx.x@gmail.com>]

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On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 17:07 +0200, Michael Haubenwallner wrote:
> 
> Usually the files are just copied instead of symlinked there.
> 
> But as far as I know, there is no Unix-ish OS without symlink support -
> even Interix does support them.
> Although I cannot definitively say we won't have to select between
> multiple executables and/or shared libraries for native Windows once -
> they would have to be copied instead of symlinked then.
> 
> So it should be fine as long as 'symlink' can potentially be implemented
> as 'copy' for specific platforms.
> 

Can be done...

def create_symlink(self, source, destination):
	self.delete_file(destination)
	os.symlink(source, destination)
	
Therefore can be easily replaced for copy. What should be the default?
Should uselect be able to supply both options like "uselect --copy bla
bla" overrides os.symlink to copy function?

> Thanks!
> /haubi/

Thanks for the hint!

Cheers,
Sérgio
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