Dereference directory symlink in src/main/python/

[hoxu]

Adding symlinks to files under src/main/python dereferences the files.

How to add a directory symlink in src/main/python and deference it so that the directory it points to gets included? It seems by default directory symlinks under src/main/python are simply ignored.

[hoxu]

Further digging revealed that symlinked directories are dereferenced properly, and copied to target/dist/$name/.

However, setup.py -v clean --all bdist_wheel does not include the copied files in the tarball, because they are not included in packages or py_modules.

This appears to be a bug in pybuilder: it seems to dereference directory symlinks when copying the files, but not when generating packages/py_modules.

Relevant source code is probably pybuilder.plugins.python.core_plugin.{list_packages,list_modules}:

pybuilder/src/main/python/pybuilder/plugins/python/core_plugin.py

Lines 106 to 124 in 6ac1ef4

	def list_packages(project):
	source_path = project.expand_path("$" + PYTHON_SOURCES_PROPERTY)
	result = []
	for root, dirs, files in walk(source_path):
	if "__init__.py" in files:
	result.append(relpath(root, source_path).replace(sep, "."))
	return sorted(result)
	def list_modules(project):
	source_path = project.expand_path("$" + PYTHON_SOURCES_PROPERTY)
	result = []
	for potential_module_file in listdir(source_path):
	potential_module_path = np(jp(source_path, potential_module_file))
	if isfile(potential_module_path) and potential_module_file.endswith(".py"):
	result.append(potential_module_file[:-3])
	return sorted(result)

os.walk defaults to followlinks=False.