Support symbolic links
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- JavaScript
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Description
At this time, the FileSystem adapter explicitly ignores symbolic links when walking the source files:
Is there a reason for this behaviour? My build pipeline involves custom tooling built around broccolijs and uses symlinks to avoid copying files unnecessarily between various build steps - this change in @ui5/fs breaks this for me.
Would you accept a PR that changes the hard-coded behaviour to allow symlinks? Or could this be configurable, and if so, how?
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reading lib/adapters/FileSystem.js around line 46, where symbolic links are ignored during source walking. Trace how the FileSystem adapter is configured and determine whether symlink support should be allowed or configurable; done means the intended symlink behavior is implemented without breaking normal walking.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- build-system, tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100