[issue8876] distutils should not assume that hardlinks will work

[Matt Wright]

Matt Wright added the comment:

Here's another example of where this is a pain. An emerging workflow is using Docker for a Python environment. However, on OS X, its common to use boot2docker (a lightweight VM). With VirtualBox on OS X, its common to setup a shared folder between the host and boot2docker so one can mount volumes to Docker containers from the host to the container(s) on the VM. So when running something like `tox` or `python setup.py sdist` things fail because VirtualBox does not allow hard links on the shared folder filesystem. Changing this would be grand. Otherwise I have the, arguably, ugly `del os.link` in my setup.py.

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