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On 21/07/12 "J. Liles"  wrote:

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>On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 3:50 PM, James Morris

>wrote:

>>

>> On 21/07/12 "J. Liles"  wrote:

>> >On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 5:24 AM, James Morris

>> >wrote:

>> [..]

>> >>

>> >> Any thoughts about symlinking to symlinked samples?

>> >>

>> >> I decided to follow symlinks when storing sample paths in memory

>> >> and then recreate the symlink path when saving. This avoids

>> >> symlinking to symlinks. I believe it provided some other minor

>> >> benefits but can't exactly recall what they were now.

>> >>

>> >> james.

>> >>

>> >

>> >When does this situation come up? The whole point of the symlinks is

>> >simply to permit some kind of session portability without the

>> >session manager or user having to understand the project format.

>> >So, for that purpose, nothing really matters except that a tar or a

>> >copy should include all (within reason) of the external resources

>> >the session requires.

>>

>> User creates session. User then creates 2nd session and wants to

>> use same samples as 1st session but, for whatever reason, rather than

>> loading samples from original paths, goes instead to 1st session dir

>> and loads the samples from that.

>>

>> User then decides to delete 1st session thereby breaking 2nd session.

>

>Nothing is fool-proof...

No, of course not. Looking back at what you said though, usage of

symlinks should be transparent to user. My framing of the issue was

skewed by sprawled thoughts ;-)
Not so much should symlinking to symlinks be allowed as should my

program deal with symlinks or the files they point to?
Now I see the symlinks should be transparent to user (at least until

they want to tar -h it) meaning: present user with the files the

symlinks point to, that is, the files the user originally specified in

the first place.
Forgive the clunking-brain noises!
james.

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