[Xastir-Dev] Re: New Directory Structure

[Curt Mills]

On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Curt Mills, WE7U wrote:

> As in:
>
>
>     cd .xastir/maps
>     ln -s /mnt/maps optical
>
>
> There, problem solved!  User-defineable map directories.  As many
> as you'd like to define...
>
> What I'm trying to accomplish with the symlink to
> /usr/share/xastir/maps:  A simple tweak that doesn't require major
> changes to the map indexing/lookup code, but gives us a unified view
> of the map directories from within the Map Chooser.
>
> You still didn't mention what your preferences were for the default
> naming (from my last message).

Technically we could also merge the two (or more) disparate trees
together inside our code as well.  Symlinks get us to the same point
without having to change the code as much, and actually give us more
flexibility to define additional map trees.

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