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Hi,
thanks for the reply. I see your point with the legacy distutils.
> I hope that this explanation will let you see why I’m reluctant to
> change distutils: we don’t know what code we will break if we improve
> symlink handling. So, do you think adding a warning about symlink
> handling issues in the docs would be enough?
Given the constraints, yes, it would be good to have that warning in the docs. Even better would be a runtime hint like
Notice: gztar target will preserve symbolic links.
or
Notice: zip target will dereference symbolic links.
> For distutils2 however, compatibility concerns do not apply yet,
> so we’re free to fix and document symlink handling.
That would be very welcome. I am afraid I will not be able to contribute code anytime soon, but it would be great if the regular developers could keep an eye on this inconsistency.