[WWdevel] Re: CVS alternative

[Michael Gage]

On Jan 10, 2005, at 4:29 PM, Sam Hathaway wrote:

> By the way, has anyone thought about how problems will be packaged? 
> Many problems consist of more than one file and it might be worth 
> laying out a packaging format, so that a problem and all of its 
> auxiliary files and metadata can be distributed as a single file.

This is a really good thing to look at.  I still regret that we 
couldn't use the "resource fork" idea of mac files systems, so that a 
problem and all of its pictures stay together.  Are there equivalent 
schemes used on unix and windows?  What is being done on the mac these 
days?

Our current system, which works, but is a bit fragile, is to use the 
same name for the directory and the .pg file when packaging a file with 
its accompanying pictures, applets or whatever.  e.g.    prob1/prob1.pg 
  accompanied by prob1/picture1.png, prob1/picture2.png, etc.  We 
usually place applets in a common area so that they can be used in 
multiple places, but that also means that frequently problems using 
applets don't work when you are first setting up a course.  You have to 
tweak the addresses in the problems and/or find the applets and install 
them in the right place.

Any ideas for making this situation more robust and straightforward?

Take care,

Mike