[Seaside] TFFiler: creates file containers to store external files in Monticello

AxiNat tibabenfortlapalanca at gmail.com
Mon Feb 7 12:44:50 UTC 2011


I'd like to suggest a feature, some method like:

TFFiler class >> fullPathOf: aFileName

That returns the full system path for a given file.

Cheers,

Bernat.

2011/2/7 AxiNat <tibabenfortlapalanca at gmail.com>

> Tony, great work!
>
> I'll be using this one in production too :)
>
> Bernat Romagosa.
>
> 2011/2/4 Sven Van Caekenberghe <sven at beta9.be>
>
> Great idea Tony, this is indeed quite useful.
>>
>> Thanks (again) for sharing this and for doing all the documentation work!
>>
>> Sven
>>
>> On 04 Feb 2011, at 19:17, Tony Fleig wrote:
>>
>> > I've published a tool I'm using called TFFiler.
>> >
>> > My problem was that I had a number of external files that were
>> > required for my Seaside web application. These were CSS, Javascript,
>> > and image files that had to be placed in a specific directory tree
>> > structure. When I moved my web app to another system, I always had to
>> > remember to reconstruct the external directory tree. Over time, the
>> > directory tree got larger and more complex.
>> >
>> > For deployment, I wanted the files to be served by Apache and not the
>> > Seaside ExternalFileLibrary. (ExternalFileLibrary was the most
>> > convenient approach during development.) This meant the directory tree
>> > should be moved to a location other than the Pharo Resources
>> > directory, which was the most convenient location during development.
>> >
>> > The current version of Monticello does not provide a way to save
>> > external files with a project. TFFiler addresses this shortcoming. Now
>> > when I load my project from Monticello the necessary external files
>> > are deployed automatically.
>> >
>> > Maybe someone else will find this useful as well.
>> >
>> > http://www.tonyfleig.com/smallthoughts/blog/tffiler
>> > http://www.squeaksource.com/TFFiler
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > TF
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