When I first wrote this I was aware that Windows had symlinks, but that they required administrator privileges.
However, Windows also has "junctions" which, for all intents and purposes, appear to be symlinks... but technically are not... somehow. Anyway, they do NOT require admin privs.
It would speed up Windows installs significantly to use junctions.
we could do a junction (if it's a directory and not just a file).
Future Updates
This may mean that we'd want to install all packages into \
.local/opt/<package-name>-<version>/bin/<bin-name> \
so that we could junction to \
.local/opt/<package-name>/bin/<bin-name>
When I first wrote this I was aware that Windows had symlinks, but that they required administrator privileges.
However, Windows also has "junctions" which, for all intents and purposes, appear to be symlinks... but technically are not... somehow. Anyway, they do NOT require admin privs.
It would speed up Windows installs significantly to use junctions.
Example:
https://github.com/webinstall/webi-installers/blob/84722bd1409d7774f5032e04d4f1aca00ebe2fa3/atomicparsley/install.ps1#L60C1-L60C60
Instead of
we could do a junction (if it's a directory and not just a file).
Future Updates
This may mean that we'd want to install all packages into \
.local/opt/<package-name>-<version>/bin/<bin-name>\ so that we could junction to \.local/opt/<package-name>/bin/<bin-name>