From fefe6684cd9e0d9d24a895e48a19f5ab633fe7af Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ines <ines@ines.io>
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2017 12:17:27 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fix symlink function to check for Windows

---
 spacy/compat.py | 7 +++----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/spacy/compat.py b/spacy/compat.py
index 6c2b00bae..a42646959 100644
--- a/spacy/compat.py
+++ b/spacy/compat.py
@@ -39,12 +39,11 @@ elif is_python3:
 
 
 def symlink_to(orig, dest):
-    if is_python3:
-        orig.symlink_to(dest)
-
-    elif is_python2:
+    if is_python2 and is_windows:
         import subprocess
         subprocess.call(['mklink', '/d', unicode(orig), unicode(dest)], shell=True)
+    else:
+        orig.symlink_to(dest)
 
 
 def is_config(python2=None, python3=None, windows=None, linux=None, osx=None):