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Windows missing symlink support - gracefully degrade to hardlink or copy #2659

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Although pex.fs has code to enable symlink support back through Python 3.7 on Windows, creating symlinks still requires special permissions granted by an admin (or the more broad "developer mode" switch to be flipped).

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