Pub should notify that symlinks cannot be created on network shares

[stevemessick]

Pub install does not work for project on network drive.

packages dosn't contain any directories
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Editor: 0.2.10_r16761 (2013-01-07)
OS: Windows Vista - x86 (6.0)
JVM: 1.6.0_22

projects: 1

open dart files: 7

auto-run pub: true
mem max/total/free: 967 / 297 / 66 MB
thread count: 30
analysis: 0 tasks, 11 libraries, 1 contexts
index: 58567 relationships and 0 attributes in 12565 elements in 124 resources stored in 2 MB on disk

SDK installed: true
Dartium installed: true

[keertip]

Set owner to @munificent.
Removed this from the M4 milestone.
Removed Area-Editor label.
Added Area-Pub label.

[munificent]

Unfortunately, this is a consequence of the fact that pub uses NTFS junction points to do symlinks on Windows. Those only work on local drives.

We won't be able to make this work, but we should notify the user of an error instead of silently failing. I'm repurposing this bug to that effect.

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Added this to the Later milestone.
Changed the title to: "Pub should notify that symlinks cannot be created on network shares".

[munificent]

Issue #9239 has been merged into this issue.

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cc @sgjesse.

[munificent]

Marked this as being blocked by #15103.

[munificent]

Added OpSys-Windows label.

[munificent]

Issue #17178 has been merged into this issue.

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cc @keertip.

[DartBot]

This comment was originally written by mor...@gmail.com

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see my suggestion in the initial issue

2014-04-02 19:35 GMT+02:00 <dart@googlecode.com>:

[nex3]

Issue #17178 has been merged into this issue.

[munificent]

Issue #17178 has been merged into this issue.

[munificent]

We're planning to move away from using symlinks at all, so we don't intend to put time into handle the lack of them more gracefully.

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Added NotPlanned label.

[DartBot]

This issue has been moved to dart-lang/pub#415.