[issue18807] Allow venv to create copies, even when symlinks are supported

2014-05-27 Thread Dominic Cerquetti
Dominic Cerquetti added the comment: Ok cool, as you said line 215 then seems to be the only one that needs it. -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue18

[issue18807] Allow venv to create copies, even when symlinks are supported

2014-05-27 Thread Dominic Cerquetti
Dominic Cerquetti added the comment: Preliminary patch for line 215, per earlier description. While this doesn't appear to break anything and creates both copies and symlinks correctly, I do have these four failing unit tests: test_multiprocessing_fork test_multiprocessing_forks

[issue18807] Allow venv to create copies, even when symlinks are supported

2014-05-27 Thread Dominic Cerquetti
Dominic Cerquetti added the comment: Requesting re-open of this issue, using --closes to force no symlinks to be created still results in venv trying to create symlinks. I'm using Python 3.4 with the following command inside a vagrant Ubuntu 14.04 virtualbox image. The folder is a SMB