In windows if you are using NTFS there is something called a "Junction Point" which is a "hard link". It works like linux `ln`.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_junction_point You have to BE CAREFUL, hard links work like folders! If you delete a hard link, you delete the file!!!! You have to delete it a special way. Here is some spiffy software http://elsdoerfer.name/=ntfslink -Thadeus On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Iceberg <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, do you pals know when and how to use command line option -f > FOLDER? I hope to hear some experience. > > My major web2py develop environment used to be a web2py source version > freshly from latest trunk, on Windows XP, but without win32 extention > (why bothers). But today I have to use a web2py windows binary version > as a workaround due to the cron feature. Detail is available here: > https://groups.google.com/group/web2py/browse_frm/thread/7d577b75534fe8b8# > > So it seems my apps must be duplicated for the two web2py version home > folder. But that is inconvenient to maintain. Therefore I am looking > for a way to let the two (or more) copies of web2py share same > applications folder. On windows, we don't have "ln -s". But web2py > looks like having builtin solution. > > -f FOLDER, --folder=FOLDER > folder from which to run web2py > > However, even I start web2py like this: > C:\> cd \my\first\web2py > C:\> web2py.py -a1 -f C:\my\another\web2py > the web2py starts, serves, but still only hosting apps under the "\my > \first\web2py\applications", not those under "\my\another\web2py > \applications". > > So, is -f FOLDER supposed to do what I want? > > Regards, > Iceberg > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "web2py-users" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en.
