Re: Symlinks in CVS trees
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 07:29:51AM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote:
>
> More seriously, because they represent bad/lazy design decisions. Here's
> some uses I've seen of links being distributed in tarballs:
>
> 1. A source file used by two different executables whose source is in
> different directories. This should be in a library, or otherwise have a
> single occurrence referenced by multiple parts of the build system (e.g.
> include files).
Assuming that this is possible; in the cases at hand, it is not
feasible, due to the nature of the build system. Of course, the links
could be made at build time....
Julian
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