[SourceJammer-users] Add Files interaction with Default Directory

[R M Willems]

Hello,   This is either a how-do-I-do-this question or a RFE. The user docs say that an archive folder must be mated with a local directory before files can be added to the folder. No problem there. What does "Default" in the phrase "Set Default Directory" mean ? The implication is that, for a given folder, I could have multiple directories that feed into it. Where am I going with this you ask ? I'd rather not create a structure in the archive that exactly matches the structure on my disk if I don't have to. Sometimes the tools I use create lots of directory levels that I'd rather not replicate in the archive. Sometimes I'd like to group files together that aren't grouped together on the hard drive. A specific example would probably help:   My InstallAnywhereNow installer-maker tool puts its output file, a self-extracting exe file, several levels deep in a directory structure it likes to create. I have a few programs that I use the tool to make self-extracting exe files for. So, if I had to replicate all of the levels for each of the programs I create, we're talking lots of folders in the archive. I know I don't have to put all of the intermediate directory levels in the archive, but I'd also like to collect all of the self-extracting exe files in one place in the archive, and I don't think SourceJammer will let me. I think once I map an archive folder to a directory, SourceJammer expects all of the files in the folder to be in that same directory. I'd like it if, for a given archive folder, individual files in that folder could be in different places on my hard disk.   Given that the disk looks like this   directoryA contains: directoryB contains: directoryC contains: self-extracting exe file named abc.exe AND directoryD contains: directoryE contains: directoryF contains: a different self-extracting exe file, this one named def.exe AND directoryG contains: directoryH contains: directoryI contains: a different self-extracting exe file, this one named ghi.exe   I'd like one folder in the archive to be named "Installers" and contain the three self-extracting exe files named abc.exe and def.exe and ghi.exe. The default directory for the folder could be either directoryC or directoryF or directoryI. Let's say for argument's sake it was directoryC. If so, I wouldn't have to do anything more for abc.exe other than to add it to the archive. For the def.exe and ghi.exe files I'd have to override the default directory.   Can I do this with the current version of SourceJammer ? Any plans to do this in the future ?   Thanks for listening and thanks for the free version control program,   Rich W