🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sat, 02 Dec 1995 22:49:12 GMT, David Corn (dcorn@metronet.com) wrote:
: jdege@winternet.com (Jeff Dege) wrote:
: 
: >On Mon, 27 Nov 1995 03:50:36 GMT, David Corn (dcorn@metronet.com) wrote:
: >: In any case, this is nitpicking.  This isn't a big deal for anyone.
: >: How often do you move applications around, and how long does it take
: >: to fix that?  10 seconds?  30?  
: >
: >15-20 times a day.  To make things more confusing, they're usually successive
: >versions of the same applications.
: 
: Some people have a need for it;  why not just name the app the same
: thing, and have a batch job to move the old files to a dated name in
: another directory?

    What I generally do is to check all the files into the revision control
system, rename the project directory, create a new project directory, 
check all the files out and do a clean build.  The inconvenience is that
any icons that had the old project directory as their working directory
now have the old project directory as their working directory, and that's
not what I want.

    _Sometimes_ you want an icon to follow a moved file or directory,
_sometimes_ you want it to work strictly off the name.  In Unix, this is
the difference between a hard and a soft link.  It would be nice if other
systems were flexible enough to provide both alternatives.

[This thread has been posting to an absurd number of newsgroups.  I trimmed
it some.]

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