Hgfs shared filesystem in VMWare does not support symlinks

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My workaround is to patch the Plugin::Instance.activate! method.

Locate the code:

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/v1.9.0.beta17/lib/plugin/instance.rb#L458-L459

Replace it with the code:

Discourse::Utils.execute_command('rm', '-rf', target)
begin
  Discourse::Utils.execute_command('ln', '-s', public_data, target)
rescue
  Discourse::Utils.execute_command('cp', '-r', public_data, target)
end