[jira] Reopened: (IVY-353) ivy:retrieve should be able to create symlinks

["Gilles Scokart (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IVY-353?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Gilles Scokart reopened IVY-353:
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      Assignee: Gilles Scokart  (was: Maarten Coene)

There is a problem when running on windows with cygwin with a java JVM.  In this case, the link is created because the user has an 'ln' application in his path.  But the created link is not useable by the windows java application.

> ivy:retrieve should be able to create symlinks
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>
>                 Key: IVY-353
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IVY-353
>             Project: Ivy
>          Issue Type: Wish
>          Components: Core
>    Affects Versions: 1.4.1
>         Environment: Linux
>            Reporter: John Williams
>            Assignee: Gilles Scokart
>         Attachments: retrieve-symlinks.patch
>
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> It would be helpful if the "retrieve" task had an option to create symlinks on systems that support them.  The symlinks could point to either the cache or a local repository (is useOrigin=true).
> My company has a very long number of small projects, many of which depend on some fairly large artifacts, so copying everything would be too slow and use up too much disk space to be practical.  (We work around this now by using the "cachepath" task for instead of retrieve.)

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