#682 option in save vap to make URI references relative

[Jeremy Faden]

With the new "demos" area on github, I often find that I want to write scripts and vaps on my local devel area, but then want to publish so that it works from the github site. This could be done automatically, by checking to see if URI references could be make relative using PWD references. This would be the same code as the embed data branch, but would not move data to embed it.

[Jeremy Faden]

Right now, you can embed data in the .vap,.zip, then unpack it.

[Jeremy Faden]

See also https://sourceforge.net/p/autoplot/bugs/1278/

[Ivar Christopher]

Jeremy,

I don't really have a stake in this either way, but just to provide a
counter-example:

Suppose we have two people collaboratively working with a large data set. They
both have the data set installed locally, but with different absolute path
structures, but the same relative path structure from their respective working
directories.

In such a case, they would want to be sharing .vaps that worked seamlessly for
both, but would not want to be schlepping data back and forth.

Just a gedanken experiment--no idea if anyone works this way.

Ta,

Ivar

On Tue, 15 Jun 2021, Jeremy Faden wrote:

• Comment:

I'm closing this because it's better to use the zip mechanism and just unzip it. There's the problem that the .vap.zip mechanism also embeds the remote data, but I think we're adding a switch to control this.

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[feature-requests:#682] option in save vap to make URI references relative

Status: open
Group: Next Development Release
Created: Fri May 31, 2019 04:26 PM UTC by Jeremy Faden
Last Updated: Fri May 31, 2019 04:26 PM UTC
Owner: nobody

With the new "demos" area on github, I often find that I want to write scripts and vaps on my local devel area, but then want to publish so that it works from the github site. This could be done automatically, by checking to see if URI references could be make relative using PWD references. This would be the same code as the embed data branch, but would not move data to embed it.

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[Jeremy Faden]

I'm closing this because it's better to use the zip mechanism and just unzip it. There's the problem that the .vap.zip mechanism also embeds the remote data, but I think we're adding a switch to control this. See https://sourceforge.net/p/autoplot/bugs/2359/

[Jeremy Faden]

See also https://sourceforge.net/p/autoplot/feature-requests/309/