On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 08:42, Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan <at> gmail.com> writes:
You should be able to use symlinks even on Windows these days (although granted they won't on portable media that uses a non-symlink friendly filesystem, regardless of OS).
Plus I'm not sure Windows XP supports true symlinks - I think you have to make do with "junctions" a.k.a. "reparse points" which are more shambolic than symbolic ;-) I know symlinks are available on Vista, Windows Server 2008 and later, but XP is still very common.
I don't think we have any stdlib support for junctions, although we could certainly add it. In 3.2 we added symlink support for files and directories, which as you say is a Vista and beyond feature.