Windows contributors face multiple issues: symlink folders not portable, permission errors, and missing imports in tests

Summary

Trying to contribute as a Windows developer to this repo turned up several significant issues:

1. Several folders (e.g., kubernetes/config, kubernetes/watch) are symlinks to base/ subdirectories in the repo. On Windows and when using ZIP downloads from GitHub, these appear as plain text files and break both pip install -e . and running tests, since setuptools expects actual directories.

2. At least one test file (watch_test.py under kubernetes/base/watch and duplicated under kubernetes/watch) is missing import json. This causes test failures with NameError: name 'json' is not defined.

3. Several tests (for example, test_oidc_with_refresh inside kube_config_test.py) fail on Windows with PermissionError when trying to create/write temp files.

Steps to Reproduce

• Clone or download the repo on Windows.
• Try pip install -e . or run python -m pytest.
• Observe errors related to config/watch packages not being directories, import errors in test files, and permission errors for temp files.

Proposed Fixes

• Replace symlinks (kubernetes/config, kubernetes/watch, etc.) with real directories or use another structure to support Windows and ZIP-based contributors.
• Ensure all test modules have necessary imports (e.g., import json).
• Refactor or skip the failing temp file tests on Windows, or improve documentation about required permissions.

Environment

• OS: Windows 10/11, Python 3.13
• (Include pip list or pip freeze if desired)

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