Oh, I see now. That's an idea. But wait, there's a problem: the profile that I need at home is different from what I need at school. So I have my original problem, but pushed back to the time J starts.
Maybe that would be the place to solve it once and for all, through. Henry Sherlock, Ric wrote: > Sorry I understood that part of the problem was that the drive letter of the > usb drive with your code on it was unpredictable. > I was thinking that if you started J from a folder on your usb you could > always ask J for the binpath and define all your project paths relative to > that. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Henry Rich <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, 13 November 2009 16:58 > To: Beta forum <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Jbeta] Projects on USB drives WAS: Project Files > > > J itself is not the problem. J always knows where its own directories > and folders are. > > Henry > > Sherlock, Ric wrote: >> Would installing J on the USB drive too so that it is always in the same >> place relative to the code folders help solve some of the problems? >> >> Regards, >> Ric >> >>> From: Henry Rich >>> >>> I have started putting the code I work on on a USB drive. This allows >>> me to work on it whether I am at home or at school, which speeds up >>> development enormously. There are some kinks that I am trying to work >>> around, and occurs to me that as long as we are discussing Project >>> Manager, maybe some of these problems can be addressed. >>> >>> The environment is: code is on my USB drive; the resulting apps need to >>> be built on different machines with different targets: at school, a >>> network drive where all teachers can get to them, at home my home PC or >>> the USB drive itself. >>> >>> The problems are: >>> >>> 0. You never know what disk letter a USB drive is going to get. Some >>> machines it is E, other H, others I. How do I set up the folder >>> containing the project so it can be seen on different machines? I have >>> a roaming profile so the J profile is the same everywhere; but this >>> means the folder's drive letter is wrong most places. >>> >>> This is basically a deficiency in the folder system. I have worked >>> around it my having a program that sniffs out the drive that my stuff >>> is >>> on, and modifies USERFOLDERS_j_. This is a kludge in that if I run >>> Edit|Configure, USERFOLDERS can get set back to its unmodified state. >>> I >>> think I want some intelligent folder definition that works with USB >>> drives. >>> >>> 1. The target varies from system to system. At school, I must build >>> to >>> a subdirectory of X: which is our shared tools disk. At home, I would >>> be happy to build to the USB drive itself. >>> >>> My workaround has been to create an X: drive at home. This is a >>> kludge, and not transferable to other environments. What is needed is >>> a >>> general way to have the targets, and perhaps some of the sources, >>> depend >>> on which machine I am on. >>> >>> 2. I need backup! I am getting old enough that remembering where I >>> put >>> my keys is a challenge - what happens if I lose my USB drive? I back >>> up >>> the drive by hand, but I think that a 'backup' target, that just saves >>> everything, might be a good idea. It might even be helpful to take >>> backup every time Project Manager starts. >>> >>> Henry >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
