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Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2016 13:11:32 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ernest Allen <eallen@redhat.com>
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Subject: Using symlinks in the qpid dispatch router console
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Thread-Topic: Using symlinks in the qpid dispatch router console
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archived-at: Wed, 17 Aug 2016 17:11:43 -0000

Summary: Are there any problems associated with checking in symlinks?

Here is the situation:

qpid-dispatch/
    console/
        stand-alone/
        hawtio/

Basically the stand-alone and hawtio versions of the qpid dispatch router use several of the same (html, js, css) files.

I see some possibile scenarios:
1) Store duplicate versions of the files in the stand-alone/ and hawtio/ directories.
Not ideal from a development/maintenance perspective.

2) Store the common files in a qpid-dispatch/console/common/ directory and use releative references in the stand-alone and hawtio code.
This prevents a user from copying the stand-alone/ directory into a web server since they would also need the common/ dir. Also, this complicates the hawtio pom.xml file greatly since some of the source would be under hawtio/ and some would be under ../common/.

3) Store the actual files in the stand-alone/ directory and use relative references in the hawtio build. 
This still has the problem of complicating the hawtio build greatly.

4) Store the actual files in the stand-alone/ directory and use symlinks in the hawtio directory.
This solves both problems. Hawtio builds just fine with symlinks and the stand-alone/ directory can be copied because it actually contains the files.

So, is using symlinks in this manner acceptable?

Thanks,
-Ernie

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