Tx alistair
Yes this is what I want.
I tried to copy (before your post and I do not recall that copy was
creating the intermediate folders).
Stef
On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 1:14 PM, Alistair Grant <akgrant0...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Stef,
>
> Assuming I understand what you're trying to do:
>
> This is broken out to hopefully make it clear what the steps are:
>
> | src srcPrefix dstPrefix dst |
>
> src := 'a/b/c/d.pi' asFileReference.
> srcPrefix := 'a' asFileReference.
> dstPrefix := 'result' asFileReference.
> dst := dstPrefix resolve: (src relativeTo: srcPrefix).
> dst
>
>
> At that point presumably you want:
>
> src copyTo: dst.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Alistair
>
>
>
>
> On 6 February 2018 at 21:50, Stephane Ducasse <stepharo.s...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Thanks alistair
>>
>> What I want to know is a different of paths between two paths so that
>> after I can reproduce the structure under another folder.
>> Example
>>
>> a/b/c/d.pi
>> I should ''copy'' it into result folder and I should get
>>
>> result/b/c/d.pi
>>
>> now I compute the path
>>
>> What is the path of a/b/c/d.pi in a => b/c/d.pi and I should then
>> 'copy' to result/b/c/d.pi
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 11:26 PM, Alistair Grant <akgrant0...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> Hi Stef,
>>>
>>> On 2 February 2018 at 20:58, Stephane Ducasse <stepharo.s...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> Then I do not get why / is expecting a string and cannot accept a path.
>>>>
>>>> Then I do not get why we have paths.
>>>> Stef
>>>
>>> Paths are intended to be internal, and not something you ever deal
>>> with directly.
>>>
>>> I'm not sure I understand what you want to do, but maybe try replacing
>>> #/ with #resolve:, e.g.:
>>>
>>> '/home' asFileReference resolve: 'user' asFileReference
>>> " File @ /home/user"
>>>
>>>
>>> or:
>>>
>>> '/home' asFileReference resolve: 'user' asFileReference path
>>> " File @ /home/user"
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Alistair
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 8:22 PM, Stephane Ducasse
>>>> <stepharo.s...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> HI
>>>>>
>>>>> I have the following scenario:
>>>>>
>>>>> '/Users/ducasse/Workspace/FirstCircle/MyBooks/Bk-Writing/PharoBooks/Booklet-AMiniSchemeInPharo/_result'
>>>>> asFileReference /
>>>>> 'book.pillar'
>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>> "File @
>>>>> /Users/ducasse/Workspace/FirstCircle/MyBooks/Bk-Writing/PharoBooks/Booklet-AMiniSchemeInPharo/_result/book.pillar"
>>>>>
>>>>> ok it works.
>>>>>
>>>>> I want to update the contents of a target folder only if a file is
>>>>> missing or too old compared to a source.
>>>>>
>>>>> The idea is that I have a target folder and I need to know if a file
>>>>> located in the source tree should be copied under the target.
>>>>> So I compute the difference from the root of the source to the file
>>>>> and I want to apply this path to the target to check some file
>>>>> properties.
>>>>>
>>>>> now I do not understand how I can get the following working:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> '/Users/ducasse/Workspace/FirstCircle/MyBooks/Bk-Writing/PharoBooks/Booklet-AMiniSchemeInPharo/_result'
>>>>> asFileReference
>>>>> /
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ('/Users/ducasse/Workspace/FirstCircle/MyBooks/Bk-Writing/PharoBooks/Booklet-AMiniSchemeInPharo/book.pillar'
>>>>> asFileReference path)
>>>>> relativeTo:
>>>>> ('/Users/ducasse/Workspace/FirstCircle/MyBooks/Bk-Writing/PharoBooks/Booklet-AMiniSchemeInPharo'
>>>>> asFileReference path)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Stef
>>>>
>>>
>>
>
