[binarycloud-dev] Handling of resources/ in htdocs

[Andreas A. (Thyrell) <a.a...@th...>]

Hi All,

I'm a bit concerned how about handling the resources/ tree in the built
system.

The following problem occurs:

I have a master template that is used in bcp defs in different levels e.g.:

www.foo.com/en/manage/news/
www.foo.com/en/manage/users/newsletters/
..

The scripts and the master template there uses resources from our
build/en/htdocs/resources directory. One way to accomplish a correct loading
of the resources is to use absolute paths in the tags i.e.
src=/en/resources/whatever/file.gif. But what if we want run the scripts a
level deeper i.e. in www.foo.com/r2/en/manage/news. Problem.

The way I sove this currently is running a symlink to
build/en/htdocs/resources in every htdocs subdir and using relative paths in
the templates i.e src=resources/whatever/file.gif.

It works and it's smooth on unix systems but I feel thats a very error prone
way. Especially while running on win systems where symlinks are not possible
(and creating virtual dirs all over the build tree is a mess).

Any ideas, plans how to handle this?

I guess that's a good application for ImageRequestBuilder.

Andi