# using symlinks

- Thread: https://externals.io/message/1636
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- Started by Sterling Hughes on 2003-05-17T17:59:59+00:00
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## #1636 — Sterling Hughes — 2003-05-17T17:59:59+00:00

URL: https://externals.io/message/1636#1636

hey,

It seems the best way to maintain aliases is actually to go ahead and
use symlinks.  At least that's what the zope people did, and it greatly
cut down on the maintenance of their modules file (which was quite
large[1]).

-Sterling

[1] http://cvs.zope.org/CVSROOT/modules.diff?r1=1.86&r2=1.87

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