Branches with symlinks can't be checked out on Windows

The same problem here. Is there a way to turn off symlinks?

Vista, Bazaar 2.2.0

I have moved on from trying to work with sikuli. Noone ever responded to
this bug report and my boss decided I should stop wasting his $. Sorry. I
have looked into xpresser which is a pure python visual automation package
as an alternative.

Ross

On Sep 10, 2010 1:56 AM, "anatoly techtonik" <email address hidden> wrote:

Vista, Bazaar 2.2.0

** Also affects: bzr

Importance: Undecided
Status: New

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Branches with symlinks can't be checked out on Wind...

Status in Bazaar Version Control System: New

Status in Sikuli: New

Bug description:
This isn't really a question and I'm not sure it is really a...
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr/+bug/586709/+subscribe

@anatoly techtonik: you might try to use views feature in bzr, and disable symlinks creation. I did not try to do this myself though.

Any hints about how to disable symlinks creation will be appreciated.

Use cygwin's bzr instead, which supports symlinks on Windows.

I posted this bug over 5 months ago, not relevant anymore, thanks though :)

Ross

On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Tsung-Hsiang Chang <email address hidden> wrote:

> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 81689 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/81689
>
> Use cygwin's bzr instead, which supports symlinks on Windows.
>
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> Branches with symlinks can't be checked out on Windows
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/586709
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in Bazaar Version Control System: New
> Status in Sikuli: Invalid
>
> Bug description:
> This isn't really a question and I'm not sure it is really a bug but yeah:
> I feel that it is a "bug" in the sense that getting the source code should
> be easier.
>
> After spending over 2 hours getting bazaar (never used it before, SVN, CVS,
> yes) up and running on my machine, making sure it was using my "launchpad"
> user, and that I had a public-key I still can't check out the code on my
> machine because apparently the Sikuli project has a symlink and those don't
> work with windows. Bazaar's "solution" is to install cygwin. Seriously? I
> dual-boot linux and have been using as my primary OS on my laptop for years
> so I'm not afraid of the penguin. But All I'm trying to do is just download
> the source code! I'm trying to get the code in an effort to try to help iron
> out bugs I've run into (memory leaks, random crashes etc) so that I can give
> back a little to the project and fix problems when I come across them and
> not wait for someone else to do it. If I'm working on sikuli visual Junit
> tests for an application I'm developing that is for windows it is a little
> hard to keep jumping back and forth between OSes. Granted I run an Ubuntu VM
> on my machine but even with it checked out I have to compile Sikuli in the
> VM, move the jar's over and then test. Not the optimal solution. I just want
> to work on the java and jython code and I can't do that right now. Maybe
> making a download of the sikuli IDE that has the source included in Jars or
> something I don't know. Just an FYI on the webpage would have saved me so
> much trouble trying to go the windows route in the first place.
>
> "Bug"
> Trying to work in
> Windows 7 64-bit
> bzr branch lp:sikuli
> bzr: ERROR: Unable to create symlink `sikuli-script/lib/com/' on this
> platform
>
> Just a little frustrated that I've had to go through two download attempts,
> one via the Bazaar GUI, one via the command line only to have it fail after
> 100mb at less than 64kb/s (and it isn't my connection slowing it down, no
> idea why it is so slow) and I still have no source code to go through.
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