Opened 17 years ago
Closed 17 years ago
#5580 closed (wontfix)
Installation documentation suggests that symlinks are impossible in Windows
| Reported by: | anonymous | Owned by: | nobody |
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| Component: | Documentation | Version: | dev |
| Severity: | Keywords: | ||
| Cc: | Triage Stage: | Unreviewed | |
| Has patch: | no | Needs documentation: | no |
| Needs tests: | no | Patch needs improvement: | no |
| Easy pickings: | no | UI/UX: | no |
Description
Vista supports symlinks:
https://blogs.msdn.com/junfeng/archive/2006/04/15/576568.aspx
It's also possible to do the same thing with junction points in XP, but it's probably better not to recommend it, although a link to the wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_junction_point might be handy for the adventurous.
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I don't think we need to mention this, it'd just add confusion.