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

[Neil Schemenauer]

Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> Does this need a pronouncement? Worrying about the speed of symlinks
> seems silly

I agree.  I wonder if a hard-link was used for legacy reasons.  Some
very old versions of Unix didn't have symlinks.  It looks like it
was introduced in BSD 4.2, released in 1983.  That seems a long time
before the birth of Python but perhaps some SysV systems were around
that didn't have it.  Also, maybe speed was more of a concern at
that time.  In any case, those days are long, long gone.

  Neil