[vtk-developers] A single ExternalData folder for multiple variants of VTK. Is it possible?

[Brad King]

On 07/15/2016 09:41 AM, Andras Lasso wrote:
> You can create symlinks in Windows

Yes, but as you point out it is basically useless for applications
in general due to lack of permissions.

> you should be able to set up shared external directory manually.

Every individual file needs to be linked with a specific name
in the build tree that is unrelated to its name in the object
store.  This is not practical to do manually.

-Brad