Symlinks support status?

[Dov Feldstern]

Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On 2007-11-03 22:12, Dov Feldstern <dfeldstern at fastimap.com> wrote:
>> Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
>>> Dov Feldstern wrote:
>>>> I see that one of the new features of 0.9.5 is "Handle symlinks on
>>>> systems without symlink support". What exactly does this mean?
>>> It means that symlinks won't be corrupted if a working directory that
>>> should contain symlinks is used on a filesystem that doesn't support them.
>> Thanks for the reply!
>>
>> I was hoping for more support though :( . Does anyone have any plans for
>> enhancing this support, to actually make repositories with symlinks
>> usable, maybe along the lines of what I described in my original post?
> 
> I missed the original post.  What sort of support would seem useful?
> 

The original post is here: 
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.mercurial.general/3527

The idea is basically to have the working directory appear --- to all 
the usual tools (compiler, editor, etc.) --- as it would on a 
symlink-supporting system, i.e., the contents of the symlinks look like 
the contents of the linked-to files.

Dov