[Python-Dev] PEP 394 request for pronouncement (python2 symlink in *nix systems)

[Antoine Pitrou]

Le dimanche 12 février 2012 à 16:52 +0100, "Martin v. Löwis" a écrit :
> > Why hard links? Symlinks are much more introspectable. When looking at
> > a hard link I have no easy way to know it's the same as whatever other
> > file in the same directory.
> 
> There actually *is* an easy way, in regular ls: look at the link count.
> It comes out of ls -l by default, and if it's >1, there will be an
> identical file.

This doesn't tell me which file it is, which is practically useless if I
have both python3.3 and python3.2 in that directory.

> If you look at the patch, you'll notice that the only change is to
> make the links hard links.

This begs the question: why?

Regards

Antoine.