[Kst] does DirFile /INCLUDE allow absolute paths

[Barth Netterfield]

This is a getdata issue, so I think you should forward the issue to
getdata-devel at lists.sourceforge.net, thought I suspect that everyone
involved is also on the kst list as well.

In any case, this needs to be handled in getdata, not kst.

cbn

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Peter Kümmel <syntheticpp at gmx.net> wrote:
> On 29.08.2010 23:11, Peter Milne wrote:
>> Hello Kst
>>
>> DirFile with /INCLUDE directive is giving me a nice unified data
>> structure, at least under Linux using relative paths, but it fails under
>> MS-Win because the top level items are absolute paths, and I can't get
>> the /INCLUDE directive to work for them.
>>
>> Absolute paths don't seem to work under Linux either, but fortunately
>> the OS is flexible enough not to need them.
>>
>> Background:
>> Two data sources each export their data as SAMBA file shares.
>> Under Linux, it's easy to configure a single DirFile tree with /INCLUDES
>> with relative paths all the way down, eg
>>
>> ls -lR ROOT | cut -c 39-
>> acq132_055 -> /home/pgm/.gvfs/multivent on acq132_055/
>> acq132_085 -> /home/pgm/.gvfs/multivent on acq132_085/
>> format
>>
>> cat ROOT/format
>> /INCLUDE ./acq132_055/format
>> /INCLUDE ./acq132_085/format
>>
>> so acq132_055, acq132_085 are digitizers exporting their data on a SAMBA
>> export in DirFile format
>>
>> Under MS-Windows, there are mounts like
>> \\acq132_055\multivent
>> \\acq132_085\multivent
>>
>> Unfortunately:
>> - MSW didn't seem to support the concept of a file system with a single
>> root, so I can't install the appropriate format file at \\ (not a disk)
>> I've wasted much time following up the mess of MS "Symbolic Links" aka
>> "junction" (NTFS only) and "Short Cuts" (not really symlinks at all).
>>
>> - KST doesn't seem to support absolute /INCLUDE paths
>> (tried every combination of '\' and '/').
>>
>> This could be included under
>> [Bug 221689] Relative and absolute data file paths in kst - msg#00025,
>> although in that case Nicolas Brisset is referring to .kst state files
>> rather than internal to DirFiles.
>>
>> It's not a show stopper, because one can run the Data Wizard multiple
>> times on each separate tree, but it could/should be improved.
>>
>> Please comment.
>
> So the question is if we could support files containing /INCLUDE lines in Kst.
>
> I think this is worth a bug report.
>
> Peter
>
>
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