Pub should notify that symlinks cannot be created on network shares

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<img src="https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/8518285?v=3" align="left" width="96" height="96"hspace="10"> Issue by stevemessick
Originally opened as dart-lang/sdk#8037

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Pub install does not work for project on network drive.

packages dosn't contain any directories
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Editor: 0.2.10_r16761 (2013-01-07)
OS: Windows Vista - x86 (6.0)
JVM: 1.6.0_22

projects: 1

open dart files: 7

auto-run pub: true
mem max/total/free: 967 / 297 / 66 MB
thread count: 30
analysis: 0 tasks, 11 libraries, 1 contexts
index: 58567 relationships and 0 attributes in 12565 elements in 124 resources stored in 2 MB on disk

SDK installed: true
Dartium installed: true

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<img src="https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2192312?v=3" align="left" width="48" height="48"hspace="10"> Comment by keertip

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Set owner to @munificent.
Removed this from the M4 milestone.
Removed Area-Editor label.
Added Area-Pub label.

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<img src="https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/46275?v=3" align="left" width="48" height="48"hspace="10"> Comment by munificent

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Unfortunately, this is a consequence of the fact that pub uses NTFS junction points to do symlinks on Windows. Those only work on local drives.

We won't be able to make this work, but we should notify the user of an error instead of silently failing. I'm repurposing this bug to that effect.

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Added this to the Later milestone.
Changed the title to: "Pub should notify that symlinks cannot be created on network shares".

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<img src="https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/46275?v=3" align="left" width="48" height="48"hspace="10"> Comment by munificent

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Issue #483 has been merged into this issue.

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cc @sgjesse.

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<img src="https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/46275?v=3" align="left" width="48" height="48"hspace="10"> Comment by munificent

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Marked this as being blocked by #727.

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<img src="https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/46275?v=3" align="left" width="48" height="48"hspace="10"> Comment by munificent

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Added OpSys-Windows label.

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<img src="https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/46275?v=3" align="left" width="48" height="48"hspace="10"> Comment by munificent

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Issue #893 has been merged into this issue.

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cc @keertip.

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This comment was originally written by [email protected]

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see my suggestion in the initial issue

2014-04-02 19:35 GMT+02:00 <[email protected]>:

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<img src="https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/188?v=3" align="left" width="48" height="48"hspace="10"> Comment by nex3

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Issue #893 has been merged into this issue.

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<img src="https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/46275?v=3" align="left" width="48" height="48"hspace="10"> Comment by munificent

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Issue #893 has been merged into this issue.

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<img src="https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/46275?v=3" align="left" width="48" height="48"hspace="10"> Comment by munificent

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We're planning to move away from using symlinks at all, so we don't intend to put time into handle the lack of them more gracefully.

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Added NotPlanned label.