wyp Project Files and relocation

Hi Guys

I'm back supporting my project after a long hiatus (changed jobs twice, and now my new company has a support contract)

So, my code has moved from the old computer i developed on 3 (or more) years ago, and I have put it on the new machine. I have all the previous builds in a new directory, and now i need to build a working update for it.

So, i have: Old Path: C:\Fairbridge Projects\ColdChain\ReleaseBuild\Version <number>, where number is the date of the release, the new path needs to be: D:\ColdChain - 2011-04-08\ReleaseBuild\Version <number>

I spoke back in 2009 about this here: https://wyday.com/forum/t/944/project-relocation/, and back then you linked the wyp spec file, now looking at it the file is still valid, but was wondering if there's a tool to change the base directory, or easily modify the wyp file? or is this still in the "pending" or "not going to implement" state?

Thanks

The wyBuild projects already support relative file paths. Your project file and the files referenced in the project file must be on the same drive.

I've seen this term relative file paths in some posts, but I honestly can't see where we either specify relative paths or how to reorg the folder structure w/o having to recreate a project. Would greatly appreciate a step-by-step on how to go about this to see what I'm missing.

Thanks!

Save the project files *relative* to your files and relative file paths will be used. So if the folder structure looks like this:

C:\Blah\Blah\YourFiles\Version 1.0\C:\Blah\Blah\YourFiles\Version 1.1\etc..

And you save the project file in the "YourFiles" folder. Now you can move all the files and folders anywhere and then wyBuild project file will use relative paths (that is, it will look relative to where it's sitting for the files of your app).

Does that make sense?

Yes, I see how this works finally! Thanks!

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