[LAD] samples/symlinks/sessions

[J. Liles]

On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 3:50 PM, James Morris <james at jwm-art.net> wrote:
>
> 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.

Nothing is fool-proof...