symlink optional (feature)

[Roland Schulz]

It would be nice to have an option -copy or -nosymlink to force coping instead of symlinking. It can be very easily be done by just:
delattr(os,"symlink")

[Ian Bicking (ianb)]

Out of curiosity, what do you want this feature for?

[Roland Schulz (roland-rschulz)]

I wanted to create a virtual env in a network mounted directory. Thus
symlinks don't work because they point to the file on the computer where one
creates the virtual env which are not necessary available on other
machines/nodes.

On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Ian Bicking
<<email address hidden><ianbicking%<email address hidden>>
> wrote:

> Out of curiosity, what do you want this feature for?
>
> --
> symlink optional (feature)
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/442780
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> Status in Virtualenv: library isolated for Python: New
>
> Bug description:
> It would be nice to have an option -copy or -nosymlink to force coping
> instead of symlinking. It can be very easily be done by just:
> delattr(os,"symlink")
>

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[tenfishsticks (tenfishsticks)]

I have the same issue, I need to create python environments to push out to a cluster.