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| author | Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com> | 2015-05-22 13:15:07 (GMT) |
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| committer | Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com> | 2015-05-22 13:21:47 (GMT) |
| commit | 0de47b05f74bd12d41b46634f00aea3bcb6f3678 (patch) | |
| tree | dc5e47bc19c61387a46d01fbf38f3999410ed7de /Help/release | |
| parent | 3541fc73a12a52f87a2faa9790a65651658162d8 (diff) | |
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ExternalData: Add option to disable use of symlinks
Add an ExternalData_NO_SYMLINKS to enable use of copies instead of
symlinks to populate the real data files behind a DATA{} reference.
This will be useful on UNIX-like systems when the underlying filesystem
does not actually support symbolic links.
Suggested-by: Matt McCormick <matt.mccormick@kitware.com>
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| -rw-r--r-- | Help/release/dev/ExternalData-no-symlinks.rst | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Help/release/dev/ExternalData-no-symlinks.rst b/Help/release/dev/ExternalData-no-symlinks.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9323cca --- /dev/null +++ b/Help/release/dev/ExternalData-no-symlinks.rst @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +ExternalData-no-symlinks +------------------------ + +* The :module:`ExternalData` module learned a new + :variable:`ExternalData_NO_SYMLINKS` option to disable use of + symbolic links to populate the real data files and use copies + instead. |