symlink in repository prevents branching under Windows

[Dirk Baechle]

Hi there,

I tried to do a

  bzr branch lp:igraph

on my Windows7 machine a few minutes ago. It was aborted with the message:

  bzr ERROR: Unable to create symlink 'doc/book/devhelp.xsl' on this platform

:(

Best regards,

Dirk

[Tamás Nepusz (ntamas)]

Unfortunately Bazaar cannot create symlinks on Windows, see the following bug (and vote on it if you feel it's important to have it fixed ASAP):

https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bzr/+bug/81689

We ill take a look at the Bazaar repo and check if there would be an easy way to remove those symlinks from the repo. In the meanwhile, if you need the source code of igraph, you can always get the latest and greatest nightly snapshot from http://code.google.com/p/igraph (note that you have to download the C core and the higher level interfaces to R and Python separately).

[Gábor Csárdi (gabor.csardi)]

The development of igraph has moved to github, so please do not comment on this bug here. You are of course welcome to comment on github, here:
https://github.com/igraph/igraph/issues/278