Keep symlinks as symlinks when installing #1012
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Without this, "pip install" crashes when encountering symlinks that point to external paths. The culprit is "shutil.copytree()", which throws an error in such cases if the "symlinks" parameter is not set to "True". This fixes #1006.
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Quite some time ago, I tried without success to get the pip tests running cleanly on my machine. I've given up on wasting time on it. |
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+1, have been encountering this issue with pip and Python 3 for a while now. |
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@myint perhaps you can explain your test failures, but in theory even with failing tests you should be able to construct a working testcase. |
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This fixes #1006.