Potential improvements on top of the mere bug fix for #519: Add a `--link-method {hard|soft|copy},...` command line argument and implement the `soft` method using symbolic links. The default should be `--link-method=hard`. To try hard links first and then fall back to copies, the user would specify `--link-method=hard,copy`. Any errors that occur during the actual linking should cause a diagnostic message to be printed that alerts the user of the `--link-method` option.
Potential improvements on top of the mere bug fix for #519:
Add a
--link-method {hard|soft|copy},...command line argument and implement thesoftmethod using symbolic links.The default should be
--link-method=hard. To try hard links first and then fall back to copies, the user would specify--link-method=hard,copy.Any errors that occur during the actual linking should cause a diagnostic message to be printed that alerts the user of the
--link-methodoption.