Re: [be] Greetings and question about project files

[Dan Dennison]

On Feb 16, 2009, at 11:00 PM, Daniel Owens wrote:

> I will try the hard link. I thought I tried that command, but it  
> didn't work. I read that it only works on the same drive. I will try  
> it again, though. Failing that, I realized why my Windows partition  
> wasn't mounting in Linux (changed uuid), so I can keep the files on  
> the Windows partition if need be.

I'd be a bit careful about this. Although there shouldn't be any  
issues with telling the Windows version to use a Linux  
version .bibledit directory, that does not mean this will always and  
forever work.

In particular, this is likely to fail for the XML configuration file,  
and perhaps other things I cannot think of now.

> > The code that creates/specifies the data directory is called  
> > tiny_directories_get_root(), which returns a ustring containing the  
> > path to the data directory (currently $HOME/.bibledit)
> Yeah, that is a Linux-type configuration.

It's not that unusual among Linux ports to Windows to see it. (GConf  
also does this, for instance) Moving it to be under Application Data  
does sound possibly a bit more platform-appropriate.

> As a default I think it would be better there, or even in a folder  
> under My Documents so users can see clearly where their translation  
> is stored. It is the kind of document you don't want to lose and you  
> want to back up frequently.

So backup is included with Bibledit. It will zip up the translation  
and put the zipfile where you specify. If this is needed strictly for  
backup purposes, it seems like a lower-priority feature, although  
something worth doing, since e.g. sharing the same project folder  
across Linux and Windows partitions sounds like a reasonable thing to  
do.

Possibly this need is more a request to have the Git remote  
repositories feature work correctly on Windows. I can see a scenario  
where the 'remote' repository is on your own machine, and then BE can  
keep the 2 copies in sync between the Linux and the Windows version.

dan :)