Re: [Ids-devel] More patches (last of the albumIconName)

[John M. <mo...@mu...>]

That was easier than I thought... The second release of the day, IDS 0.6a5,
is available.

http://arwen.hn.org/~john/

Description files and album icons are now stored in the "album-data"
directory (this name can be changed easily.) Much like the image-cache,
directory, the script builds a directory structure that matches that of the
albums directory. Because we now don't have to worry about the visibility of
album icons, I changed the default name of these files to "album_icon.jpg."
For the sake of consistancy, album descriptions now reside within the
directory they describe and are named "album_description.txt."

Please let me know what you think.

John


on 2/17/01 5:53 PM, John Moose at mo...@mu... wrote:

> Thanks.
> 
> I'm not sure about using the image cache for album preview images. I like
> the fact that nothing valuable is kept in there so I can clear it out from
> time to time. If a custom album icon had been created, it would be lost.
> 
> I've been wanting to move everything that isn't an original image (album
> previews and comments) out of the albums directory. Many people have
> complained about IDS requiring write access to the directories that contain
> their original images. I've been putting the change off because it would
> break people's current sites.
> 
> I think I'll get started on this. Unless someone has a better suggestion,
> I'll call the new directory "album-data."
> 
> I wonder how hard it would be to write a program to convert from the old
> layout to the new...
> 
> John