Launchpad svn/git imports failure causes

[Martin (gzlist)]

On 10/09/2010, Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at samba.org> wrote:
> I think it would also make sense to warn users when they add a file with
> a name that has a backslash in it that that character isn't supported on
> all platforms. Supporting backslashes shouldn't mean we can't discourage
> users from using them.

This approach of treating some platforms as second-class and
discouraging non-portable features doesn't really seem to be working
for symlinks. Pretty much always the right answer is "don't version
symlinks if you claim to be a cross-platform project", but instead we
get things like <https://bugs.launchpad.net/sikuli/+bug/586709> which
gets turned into a dupe of our bug 81689 rather than getting that
straight forward advice, then this cute little follow up from antatoly
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/sikuli/+bug/634791> which could be
paraphrased as "switch to mercurial".

Martin