Re: Easy configuration of a site-lisp directory

[Arthur Miller]

Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com> writes:

> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>
>>> Would you and everybody else interested in this topic like to try a
>>> small patch to test the idea with symlinks? It literally takes 3 lines
>>
>> It seems hackish compared to using an approach like that used by
>> elpa-admin.el (not to mention that symlinks aren't really usable under
>> w32).
>
> What does elpa-admin.el uses? Is it part of Emacs?
>
> I have no idea what it even is, so I don't what it does. Symblink is a
> hack, but one that makes all the features of project.el work out of the
> box (autoloads, quickstart, etc) and is almost cost-free in terms of
> wrok needed to add :). My only consideration was if it works on Windows/Mac.

After some search, yes seems like symlinks are not so great on Windows:

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2016/12/02/symlinks-windows-10/

Don't udnerstand why are symlinks such a big deal for them.