Re: [tycho-user] Symbolic links as text files on Windows

[Ed Willink <ed.willink@xxxxxxxxx>]

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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