Not needing symbolic linking

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Originally opened as dart-lang/sdk#22985

This issue was originally filed by [email protected]

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What steps will clearly show the issue / need for enhancement?

1. Save Dart files on a network drive with symbolic linking disabled
2. Run Tools-Pub Get
   3.

What is the current output?
"Cannot create link, path = 'Q:\dart\test33\packages\browser' (OS Error: Access is denied.
, errno = 5)"

What would you like to see instead?
I am a high school teacher who likes Google Dart because it offers a good language with typed, explicit variables and a good, simple class inheritance system. And my students can put their products up for the world to see if they wish. My IT department is very security conscious and doesn't really want to turn on symbolic linking. I recognize it might make things slower on every Pub Get, but is it possible to have an option to turn off symbolic linking?

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Dart 1.8.5, Windows 7 Enterprise

Please provide any additional information below.

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<img src="https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/4865287?v=3" align="left" width="48" height="48"hspace="10"> Comment by lrhn

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We have current enhancement proposal that wants to get rid of symbolic links.

Until then, would it be possible for pub to add a flag that makes it copy libraries into the packages directory instead of making symbolic links. It should probably be restricted to doing it in one place, and not everywhere it would put a symbolic link, requiring the user to use --package-root to point to that one directory when running dart files in other locations.

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Removed Area-Tools label.
Added Area-Pub label.

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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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Added Duplicate label.
Marked as being merged into #727.