I solve this by having two dev.cfg files. and then just specifing the
one I need depending on which machine I'm on
On 1/2/06, Robin Munn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I do most of my development on two different machines, one a desktop
> running Ubuntu, the other a laptop running OS X. This means that my
> SQLite database ends up in two different locations depending on which
> machine I'm working on: /home/rmunn/projects/... on Ubuntu, or
> /Users/rmunn/projects/... on OS X. This makes specifying the full path
> for the sqlobject.dburi configuration variable a little tricky, as the
> full path varies from moment to moment depending on which machine I'm
> sitting in front of. I don't want to clutter up my SVN repository logs
> with dozens of meaningless dev.cfg changes; what I really want is a
> way to access pkg_resources.resource_filename() from within dev.cfg,
> so that I can just bundle a "data.db" file with my project egg.
>
> I could override the sqlobject.dburi value from my code instead of
> from inside dev.cfg. The problem with this approach, however, is that
> tg-admin code reads dev.cfg to find the database location, which means
> CatWalk (among other things) will fail to find my database, which is
> annoying.
>
> I just want to check out my code on any of my development machines --
> Linux, Mac, or Windows -- and have it "just work". Anyone else facing
> this problem? What did you come up with?
>
> --
> Robin Munn
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cheers
elvelind grandin
