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Author gvanrossum
Recipients Socob, gvanrossum, kristjan.jonsson, ncoghlan, ned.deily, neologix, schmir
Date 2019-11-22.17:24:50
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You have a point — I was just responding to Nick’s last message without
noticing how old it was. I’ll remove myself from the nosy list.

On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 15:14 Kristján Valur Jónsson <report@bugs.python.org>
wrote:

>
> Kristján Valur Jónsson <sweskman@gmail.com> added the comment:
>
> So you have already stated, and this issue is six years old now.
>
> While I no longer have a stake in this, I'd just like to reiterate that
> IMHO it breaks several good practices of architecture, particularly that of
> separation of roles.
>
> The abstraction called symbolic links is the domain of the filesystem.  An
> application should accept the image that the filesystem offers, not try to
> second-guess the intent of an operator by arbitrarily, and unexpectedly,
> unrolling that abstraction.
>
> While you present a use case, I argue that it isn't, and shouldn't be, the
> domain of the application to intervene in an essentially shell specific,
> and operator specific process of collecting his favorite shortcuts in a
> folder.  For that particular use case, a more sensible way would be for the
> user to simply create shell shortcuts, even aliases, for his favorite
> python scripts.  This behaviour is basically taking over what should be the
> role of the shell.  I'm unable to think of another program doing this sort
> of thin.
>
> I suppose that now, with the reworked startup process, it would be simpler
> to actually document this rather unexpected behaviour, and possibly provide
> a flag to override it.  I know that I some spent time on this and came away
> rather stumped.
>
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