Re: [ww-users] cleaning out old directories

[Peter L. R. <pl...@st...>]

> >> A way to change things to source files might be useful - or something
> >> like Jonathan has suggested (if I remember right), where project files
> >> that are being archived in the wiki get written back out to the working
> >> directory, so they're preserved even if the whole directory gets
> >> removed.  But those kind of ideas are confusing and troubling to me and
> >> I don't know what to do with them.
> >
> > Here's something I've always wanted to try.  You could have a valuable
> > target be an archived project file living in the Media: space.  Then
> > another project could use that same Media: page as a source file.
> > Seems like it should work well.  I was thinking it should be done
> > across projects, but it seems like it would work to allow you to
> > control the flow within a project as well.
> >
> > JD
> 
> Oh, man.  You could do that.  I should make sure that when it archives 
> to that page it flags it properly, because any time a source file is 
> changed, pages need to be expired from the parser cache so things will 
> be remade.  I think it would work actually.  (Though it wouldn't matter 
> if it's in the same project, because it's coming from the working 
> directory and syncing it back to the directory would be a null operation 
> and wouldn't necessitate any further makes, so actually it doesn't need 
> to be flagged in that case.  But it does if it's a source file in a 
> different project.)  If you do try it I'd like to watch! :)

Yes, this is just what I was thinking; perhaps we can assume that if any
file is costly enough it should not be erased that it will be stored as
an archived project file?

--peter