Review Request 128112: New module: ecm_win_resolve_symlinks

[Nicolás Alvarez]

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I looked at this a few times, researched a bit about git + symlinks + Windows... and I conclude that _having symlinks in the repository_ is a bad idea, because of the problems they cause on Windows, and this RR is not a good enough workaround for those problems.

Instead, I propose:
1. delete the symlinks from the `breeze-icons` git repository
2. create a text file with some sort of list of "icon aliases"
3. make the build system create the symlinks at compile time (or install time) based on the icon alias list, or copies (or NTFS hardlinks?) in the case of Windows
4. add server-side git hooks to prevent symlinks from being introduced again

...which would be a big enough change that it needs discussion in mailing lists, and not just here :)

- Nicolás Alvarez


On Junio 8, 2016, 2:08 a.m., Gleb Popov wrote:
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> (Updated Junio 8, 2016, 2:08 a.m.)
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> Review request for Extra Cmake Modules.
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> Repository: extra-cmake-modules
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> Description
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> When git is checking out repositories with UNIX symbolic links inside on Windows machine, it writes them as plain text files, containing relative path to the real file. This is the case for breeze-icons framework, for instance, and this breaks some icons that are symlinked.
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> This macro is intended to fix that. There is some room for performance improvement, but i wanted to get the feedback early.
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> Diffs
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>   modules/ECMWinResolveSymlinks.cmake PRE-CREATION 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/128112/diff/
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> Testing
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> Thanks,
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> Gleb Popov
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