Guido van Rossum wrote:
> I ought to remember why because I remember I was involved. (And I have
> a feeling that the change Antoine dug up was just a refactoring,
You are correct. I checked Python 1.5.2 and it also creates hard
links (prior to Makefile overhaul).
> The best I can come up with
Dan Stromberg writes:
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
>
> > Dan Stromberg writes:
> >
> > > It's been suggested that […] if people had added symlinks first,
> > > no one would've bothered adding hardlinks.
> >
> > Well, that suggestion is faulty. It ignores the fact that *al
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
> Dan Stromberg writes:
>
> > It's been suggested that *ix has hardlinks because someone thought up
> > hardlinks before someone thought up symlinks - IOW, there are those who
> > suggest that if people had added symlinks first, no one would've b
Dan Stromberg writes:
> It's been suggested that *ix has hardlinks because someone thought up
> hardlinks before someone thought up symlinks - IOW, there are those who
> suggest that if people had added symlinks first, no one would've bothered
> adding hardlinks.
Well, that suggestion is faulty.
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> On Jul 27, 2011, at 12:19 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
>
>>Ok, apparently the decision to make hard links for executables dates at
>>least back to:
>
> That still doesn't explain *why* hardlinks were originally chosen instead of
> symlinks. In t
It's been suggested that *ix has hardlinks because someone thought up
hardlinks before someone thought up symlinks - IOW, there are those who
suggest that if people had added symlinks first, no one would've bothered
adding hardlinks.
Symlinks are almost always more flexible, and almost always more
On Jul 27, 2011, at 12:19 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
>Ok, apparently the decision to make hard links for executables dates at
>least back to:
That still doesn't explain *why* hardlinks were originally chosen instead of
symlinks. In the absence of any other compelling argument against it, I think
Ok, apparently the decision to make hard links for executables dates at
least back to:
changeset: 16221:588691f806f4
branch: legacy-trunk
user:Neil Schemenauer
date:Wed Jan 24 17:11:43 2001 +
files: Makefile.pre.in
description:
Flat makefile based on toplevel Mak
