[LAD] samples/symlinks/sessions

[James Morris]

On 21/07/12 "J. Liles" <malnourite at gmail.com> wrote:
>On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 5:24 AM, James Morris <james at jwm-art.net>
>wrote:
[..]
>>
>> Any thoughts about symlinking to symlinked samples?
>>
>> I decided to follow symlinks when storing sample paths in memory and
>> then recreate the symlink path when saving. This avoids symlinking to
>> symlinks. I believe it provided some other minor benefits but can't
>> exactly recall what they were now.
>>
>> james.
>>
>
>When does this situation come up? The whole point of the symlinks is
>simply to permit some kind of session portability without the session
>manager or user having to understand the project format. So, for that
>purpose, nothing really matters except that a tar or a copy should
>include all (within reason) of the external resources the session
>requires.

User creates session. User then creates 2nd session and wants to
use same samples as 1st session but, for whatever reason, rather than
loading samples from original paths, goes instead to 1st session dir
and loads the samples from that.

User then decides to delete 1st session thereby breaking 2nd session.