[Qgis-developer] symlinks in GRASS plugins

[Alex Mandel]

I think the easiest solution to keep track of in the long run is to
simply allow the image file to be defined in the qgm file for a given
tool, and default to matching as currently done if none is specified.
Radim thought this was also a good approach and asked that a ticket be
filed for it (sounded like he might implement it).

Thanks,
Alex

On 01/11/2011 06:09 AM, cavallini at faunalia.it wrote:
> Thanks. What is the advantage of this approach respect to simply copying it?
> All the best.
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> ----- Reply message -----
> Da: "Maciej Sieczka" <msieczka at sieczka.org>
> Data: lun, gen 10, 2011 20:36
> Oggetto: [Qgis-developer] symlinks in GRASS plugins
> A: "qgis-developer" <qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org>, "Paolo Cavallini" <cavallini at faunalia.it>
> 
> W dniu 09.01.2011 11:16, Paolo Cavallini pisze:
> 
>> In the GRASS plugin there are tens of repeated icons. I would like to
>> replace them with symlinks, to keep everything more tidy. In principle
>> this should work:
>> http://www.rekk.de/bloggy/2008/versioning-symlinks-with-subversion-on-linux/
>> but in practice it does not:
>> https://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/changeset/15006/trunk
>> I replaced v.in.gns.?.* with links, but the module do not see them.
>> I do not know if:
>> - the method does not work (unlikely)
>> - I did something wrong
>> - the GRASS plugin requires the image, and does not accept a link.
> 
> Hi Paolo,
> 
> Maybe a file external instead? SVN >= 1.6 is needed. An example:
> 
> ### CREATE THE FILE ###
> 
>   $ echo 'file1 content' > repo_wc/file_1.txt
> 
>   $ svn add repo_wc/file_1.txt
>   A         repo_wc/file_1.txt
> 
>   $ svn ci repo_wc/file_1.txt -m 'adding file_1.txt to version control'
>   Adding         repo_wc/file_1.txt
>   Transmitting file data .
>   Committed revision 1.
> 
> ### LINK IT ###
> 
>   $ svn up repo_wc/
>   At revision 1.
> 
>   $ svn propset svn:externals 'file_2.txt 
> file:///home/pok/repo/file_1.txt' repo_wc/
>   property 'svn:externals' set on 'repo_wc'
> 
>   $ svn ci repo_wc/ -m 'file_2.txt is a copy of file_1.txt'
>   Sending        repo_wc
>   Committed revision 2.
> 
>   $ svn up repo_wc/
>   Fetching external item into 'repo_wc/file_2.txt'
>   E    repo_wc/file_2.txt
>   Updated external to revision 2.
>   Updated to revision 2.
> 
> ### BOTH FILES ARE NOW THERE AND HAVE THE SAME CONTENT ###
> 
>   $ ls -l repo_wc/
>   total 8
>   -rw-r--r-- 1 pok pok 14 Jan 10 20:23 file_1.txt
>   -rw-r--r-- 1 pok pok 14 Jan 10 20:24 file_2.txt
> 
>   $ cat repo_wc/*
>   file1 content
>   file1 content
> 
> Maciek