[issue8876] distutils should not assume that hardlinks will work

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:

> AFAICT using hard links only serves to save up a little time and disk
> space; it seems to me that always copying would solve one or two bugs
> at a small cost

I agree with this.

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