On Sun, 24 Jul 2011 23:16:55 +0200 Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > > I think the recommendation should be symbolic links for all systems. > Hard links are generally harder to discover, while it is trivial to > find out that a given file is a symbolink link, and to which other file. > The optimization is probably not useful in the real world (our > executables are relatively small, and people worried about a couple of > megabytes can always go for the shared library option).
Oh, I don't even know why I thought hard links would be a size optimization anyway. I guess I thought "file copy" instead of "symbolic link". Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
