[Pytest-commit] [hpk42/tox] tox requires a file system with support for hard links to work (issue #86)

[Hynek Schlawack]

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New issue 86: tox requires a file system with support for hard links to work
https://bitbucket.org/hpk42/tox/issue/86/tox-requires-a-file-system-with-support

Hynek Schlawack:

Since tox runs sdist, it requires hard links to work.

That’s a problem if you work in a VM with a guess file system like e.g. VirtualBox which don’t. Thus at the moment, it’s impossible to use tox in such a – thanks to vagrant increasingly common – setup.

There’s a related question on [StackOverflow](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7719380/python-setup-py-sdist-error-operation-not-permitted).

The only ad-hoc solution I can come up with is detecting that situation and monkey patch `os.link()`. :)


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