[issue15281] pyvenv --symlinks option is a no-op?

[Antoine Pitrou]

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

> Following discussions on python-dev, the default is always to symlink,
> except on Windows (no support for true symlinks on XP and older) and
> Mac OS X (problems with framework builds). The --symlinks indicates,
> on those platforms where symlinks is not the default, to use symlinks
> anyway. This will most likely only be useful on Windows Vista, Windows
> 7 and Mac OS X with a non-framework build of Python.

Ok, then it might be nice to make the usage string (which is printed
with pyvenv --help) clearer.

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