Feature Requests item #1428486, was opened at 2006-02-09 09:44 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by derekc You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=642717&aid=1428486&group_id=105970
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: tallow Group: Next Release (example) Status: Open Priority: 5 Submitted By: Paul Welter (pwelter34) Assigned to: Derek (derekc) Summary: Support relative paths in Tallow Initial Comment: The following patch is to add support for relative paths in Tallow. The patch adds a command line switch -rs that makes source files relative to the working directory. So if you want the src files to be relative to a build folder, you run tallow in the setup folder with a path to the build folder. Example: D:\Project\Setup>Tallow.exe -d "D:\Project\Build" -rs -nologo > BuildFragment.wxs Output: <File Id="file1" Name="README.TXT" Compressed="yes" src="..\Build\Readme.txt" /> The included zip file includes tallow.cs and tallow.patch that are base on the Jan. 20 Wix V2 source that can be downloaded. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Derek (derekc) Date: 2006-03-22 11:00 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=518766 SourceDir is a special value recognized by light.exe which represents the "base directory" from which to look for files. In practice, the base directory for light is defaulted to the current directory from which light is being run. However, by specifying "light.exe -b <some other dir>", you can have a base directory be any other directory you'd like. Essentially, I think I understand your request now and it seems perfectly reasonable. I'm doing a lot of work with tallow at the moment, so I'm basically trying to get a pulse on what things require improvements and what things are working okay right now. This feedback (and any other you might have) will be extremely valuable during this time. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Paul Welter (pwelter34) Date: 2006-03-22 10:27 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=424752 The way I envisioned it working is that the folder you run tallow in is the folder your setup file would be in and the files would be relative from there. I'm not sure what you mean by SourceDir. Do you mean a variable? A variable wouldn't be needed if the paths are relative. The reason I need this feature is because hard paths don't work for source control. People can checkout the source to whatever folder they choose. With relative paths, this is not an issue. Maybe we could add another arg for the relative folder. Thoughts? ~ Paul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Derek (derekc) Date: 2006-03-21 18:00 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=518766 I'd rather see this feature put SourceDir in the file paths so that path resolution could be delayed until bind-time. I'm not entirely sure how that feature would work with the suggested -rs option though. The problem is that the directory from which tallow is run does not necessary correlate to the directory being scraped. It seems like it might be more useful to have the ability to declare a certain path as the point at which paths are relative. For example, if I'm scraping a file: c:\some\dir\and\files.txt And I run: tallow -d "c:\some\dir" -rs c:\some It gives a path like this: SourceDir\dir\and\files.txt And if I run tallow from c:\some, I can just do: tallow -d "c:\some\dir" -rs (this will assume the current directory is the point at which the paths should be chopped off. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=642717&aid=1428486&group_id=105970 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ WiX-devs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-devs
