[rfc] Windows symlink support

[Wouter van Heyst]

On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 05:01:53PM -0500, John Yates wrote:
<snip>
> >From the very top of Aaron's wiki page:
> 
>   Add support for symlinks to bzr-on-windows, so that
>   windows users can collaborate on projects which use
>   symlinks in their source trees. 
> 
> This seems an ill-thought out use case.  If symlinks
> are used in any general way in the source tree such
> that any tooling used to build the project needs to
> follow those symlinks then in reality that project
> has written off developers on Window boxes being
> real participants. 

You are considering only one specific use of symlinks.
If I want to version my /etc, am I not allowed to version the symlinks
therein?

Wouter van Heyst