OK, two issues here, one shortterm, one longer term.
a) in mantis 6828 Dave Lewis proposes some changes to fix some 64bitness issues. They look good to me and he added tests. However I'm not responsible for unix vms and I'm not about to commit those changes. Somebody else will have to handle that and close the mantis report etc.
b) I'm reasonably sure that all the platforms we are interested in now support file links of some sort. File copying (and the vile FileCopyPlugin may it be cursed to the bottom of the pits of Vista) was only ever used because we had no linking available. Eliot will cheerfully (I'm sure) rabbit on for hours about how we used to handle things in the brouhaha source tree, where sets of files for particular platforms were assembled by links from the assorted subsystems, thus making it easy to make. Or even nmake. It would be really nice to agree a path towards a brighter future where VMMaker doesn't have to copy files and worry about damned permissions/attributes/flavours/whatever. Thoughts please?
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