winsymlinks which defaults to native and falls back to deepcopy?
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Description
I was wondering if we should have a new winsymlinks mode which tries to use native symlinks and falls back to deepcopy if that fails. This way we can tell users to enable developer mode to get proper symlinks.
(disclaimer, I have symlinks disabled here to dogfood the defaults, so I haven't used the native stuff really)
edit:
- as pointed out in chat, we should make sure pacman packages don't end up with symlinks still, or figure out how to move symlinks last in the tarball to make the deepcopy fallback work
- what happens with symlinks once dev mode is disabled again?
- what happens on win8.1?
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- Tech stack
- c
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- operating-systems
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
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