Proposal: removeDirectoryRecursive should not follow symlinks

[Milan Straka]

Hi all,

> -----Original message-----
> From: "Edward Z. Yang" <ezyang at mit.edu>
> Sent: 5 Jan 2015, 14:25
>
> I propose to backwards incompatibly change the behavior of
> removeDirectoryRecursive to not follow symlinks.  We could optionally
> add a replacement function under a new name which does follow symlinks.

+1 to changing behaviour of removeDirectoryRecursive.

-1 to depreciation cycle and a replacement function.

To me, this feels like bugfixing, not backwards incompatible change, as
the current behaviour is unexpected and potentially harmful.

Cheers,
Milan Straka