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Support for unarchiving symbolic links #63

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@adam-bloom

Both zip and tar allow for symbolic links to be included in archives as links, and not just as files. The launcher does not currently handle unarchiving correctly when symbolic links are encountered. As an example, the latest develop macOS archive contains the following symlink:

lrwxr-xr-x@ 1 Adam  staff    16B Oct 10 15:06 libzip.5.dylib -> libzip.5.3.dylib

The above link was extracted using the default macOS Archive Utility, but similar results are seen when invoking unzip directly from the command line.

Using the launcher, we get the following:

-rw-r--r--@ 1 Adam  staff    16B Oct 11 16:25 libzip.5.dylib

The file was extracted, but not as a symlink.

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