Symlink usage for extension development breaks *some* features

[loneregister]

If you use sylinks to "install" your magento2 development extensions (or I suppose production as well would exhibit this behavior) - you will discover that things like .phtml files for frontend templates will fail to load and execute.

This feature should be functional or at the very least, usable in a development environment. Alan storm has an interesting "hack" that might be the solution. This can be viewed here:

http://magento.stackexchange.com/questions/93067/magento-2-work-around-for-loading-static-assets-from-symlinks/95268#95268

[victor-shelepen]

Related issue: #3612

[andimov]

@loneregister, thank you for reporting.
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[palamar]

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