Symbol links on Windows about apm HOT 3 CLOSED

I'm down with that approach if we can do it cleanly, shortcuts are more native to Windows.

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On Windows though it's possible to create symbols links, but it requires the Administrator privilege to do that, or at least requires the Administrator user to grant the permission to normal users, and it's hard to get it right

Yep, while Symlinks have the same semantics as they do in POSIX, you can't create them without a UAC dialog, which sucks. In the case of apm develop, it might be reasonable to pop a UAC dialog though, and directory symlinks are Generally Reliable (unlike file symlinks which have a tendency to get stomped by dumb programs). They also only exist in >= Vista (which is fine, just wanted to mention it)

Maybe we could create file shortcuts instead of symbol links on Windows?

File Shortcuts are only interpreted by Explorer (i.e. the file browser UI), they have no meaning to the filesystem or other programs (and therefore aren't very useful as a replacement for symlinks).

I'm not sure where you're trying to replicate symlinks, but since this is the apm repo, I would either bite the UAC prompt bullet, or just do a 'cp -R' whenever you see 'ln -s', depending on the scenario

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Fixed in 879b06

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