From: Sean O'Halpin <sean.ohalpin@...>
Date: 2005-10-06T23:55:22+09:00
Subject: Re: traits question

> neither.  the link exists in the lib directory when i tar up the package.
> what does it unpack as then?

Just the traits-0.7.0.rb file.

The traits.rb link isn't visible in Winzip (which I and I guess most
Windows users will be using to unpack tars). Actually, it's pretty
smart of Winzip to know that softlinks won't work.

tar.exe (from the UnixWin32 project on SourceForge) lists trait.rb but
fails when you try to extract it. (It attempts to do a hardlink but
fails).

I reckon the best way to handle this on Windows would be to copy the
file (and overwrite anything there with the same name). I'd be chary
about using hard links - they are available but a foreign concept to
most Windows users.

Regards,

Sean