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creating filename macros (other than trx macro) #237

Open arobie opened 5 years ago

arobie commented 5 years ago

Is there anyway to do this from the GUI? does there need to be? is it important for the packaging of projects that we were discussing?

allenleetc commented 5 years ago

No GUI for this yet.

Re packaging hmm not sure, but yeah maybe there is something there.

Maybe related. A while back I added support for the $projdir macro, in order to create totally portable projects-that-contain-their-own-data. This was for cross-platform testing purposes, not sure how realistic this would be for big data. In the following the 'myproj' folder is a self-contained project.

/path/to/myproj % portable project folder
/path/to/myproj/proj.lbl % movies, trxfiles use $projdir macro which refers to myproj
/path/to/myproj/data % data folder containing all movies/trxiles referenced in proj.lbl

But maybe 'packaging' could have the option to suck up all the relevant raw data as well. Could lead to umm big projects.