On 3 December 2013 01:06, Bjørn Roald
On 12/03/2013 01:48 AM, Daniel James wrote:
Git for a start. If you check out a different version of a header it will break the link.
In that case we should use symlinks for sure. The problem here is that the dependency in b2 for the link should catch this in the build, but not if the date stamp move in the wrong direction. IBM cleamake solves this in clearcase views, but we do not have that build tool. Using filetime "greater than" to detect dependency changes is a fundamentally broken hack used by almost all build tools.
True, but even if we used a build system that acted differently, we can't assume that everyone will use it.
As far as I remember symlinks to files are not Supported on windows prior to Vista, how much of a concern should that be? I guess copies are annoying for XP hosts, but not as devious as I see hardlinks could be.
I was mainly worried about unix variants. I think it's fair to have a lesser experience on XP, it's pretty much obsolete now (and I write that as someone who's still on XP).