The following changeset gets an AttributeError on windows when trying to call os.symlink. I haven't looked at the usage but catching the AttributeError gets it working again. changeset: 3998:315d47991fd4 user: Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> date: Fri Dec 29 20:04:31 2006 -0600 summary: symlinks: check whether a filesystem supports symlinks