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

[Tony Fleig]

Hi Bernat,

You mean the full system path of a file that is stored in a container
class? That is, the location to which the file would be restored by
#restoreDirectory?

Or do you mean the full system path of an arbitrary file in the file system?

TF

On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 4:44 AM, AxiNat <tibabenfortlapalanca at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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