Improve error message when symlink failed on Windows #565
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This patch adds a helpful message when encountering a failure to create symlinks in Windows which can likely be fixed by enabling developer mode.
The implementation is very dumb, just catching all
File::AccessDeniedErrorand check whether it was caused by a missing privilege forsymlinkcreation.Alterantively, we could use a wrapper for
File.symlinkwhich checks this directly at every call site (it's only 2). But I think it's easier this way.Resolves #556