Follow symbolic links

[Adam Olsen]

Follow symlinks when importing library.

What about infinite loops? We could add checking, but will it take a lot of time?

This ticket was migrated from the old trac: re #737

[Ferrix Hovi (ferrix)]

This patch also makes Exaile follow symbolic links. It adds the directories by their real names.

[Ferrix Hovi (ferrix)]

I just noticed that my previous patch allows exaile to get caught in an eternal loop.

This new patch keeps track of all paths while following symbolic links and never scans twice.

[Ferrix Hovi (ferrix)]

Ah, forgot one python specialty. Now it works more than once.

[Johannes Sasongko (sjohannes)]

Thanks. I've updated the patch to the code in main, and changed it to use set instead of list.

[Nizar Kerkeni (nizarus)]

Hello;
In which version of exail this patch is included ? I'm using exail 0.2.11 on hardy and it can't follow symbolic links when scanning library.

[Ferrix Hovi (ferrix)]

Nizar K kirjoitti:
> Hello;
> In which version of exail this patch is included ? I'm using exail 0.2.11 on hardy and it can't follow symbolic links when scanning library.

Later than that. I have a patch for 0.2.11 available somewhere but a
recent snapshot should also do.