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Re: [tycho-user] Symbolic links as text files on Windows
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Hi
I strongly recommend that you avoid symbolic links. Redesign before you
create more problems.
They don't work on Windows and what appears to be a pale imitation of
Linux is just confusing.
They don't work on Unix either. e.g. symbolic links cannot be used when
mirroring Eclipse downloads/updates and/or cannot be used to publish a
non-cloned 'latest' P2 repo. Just for extra fun there are hard/soft
symbolic links.
Philosophically how can they work? If I create three archives for you of
my work involving symbolic links, how many times should the linked
material be replicated and how do you contrive to share them
again/obtain the omissions? Clearly symbolic links require accurate
shared understanding of the functional intent by both tools and humans
to satisfy that intent.
Regards
Ed Willink
On 07/08/2020 14:45, Christoph Läubrich wrote:
This has nothing to do with tycho. See [1] for possible solutions.
Theoretically it would be possible to use some kind of jgit+maven to
do it automatically but thats a little bit out of scope of tycho I think.
[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5917249/git-symlinks-in-windows
Am 07.08.20 um 15:34 schrieb Paulina Kruszyna:
Hello,
I need to build a maven project with symbolic links. I am using the
tycho 1.7.0 version. On MacOS got the symbolic links bundled within
the jar but on Windows got all symbolic links as text files
containing path to file. Is there any way to get symbolic links on
Windows like it is on MacOS? Or is it maybe a bug?
Thanks in advance,
Paulina
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