July 24, 2011
9:21 p.m.
On Sun, 24 Jul 2011 23:16:55 +0200 Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> wrote:
I think the recommendation should be symbolic links for all systems. Hard links are generally harder to discover, while it is trivial to find out that a given file is a symbolink link, and to which other file. The optimization is probably not useful in the real world (our executables are relatively small, and people worried about a couple of megabytes can always go for the shared library option).
Oh, I don't even know why I thought hard links would be a size optimization anyway. I guess I thought "file copy" instead of "symbolic link". Regards Antoine.