[TxMt] ~/Library/Application Support/TextMate/Bundles vs. /Library/...

[Charilaos Skiadas]

Hi Daryl,

	I think before we offer any advice, there's one important thing we  
need to clear up. Have you already made changes to your copy of the  
Perforce bundle?

Simply put, changes that you make to a bundle via the bundle editor  
are written in ~/Library/.....
Normally they are written as delta files, if the corresponding  
commands are there. If you've already done changes, then you should  
look at the actual files in your bundle, by opening it as a folder,  
and see if they are delta files (they will have a key in the XML tree  
with name "isDelta" if I recall.

Got to go teach now, more later or from someone else in the meantime ;)

Haris Skiadas
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Hanover College


On Mar 30, 2007, at 12:01 PM, Daryl Spitzer wrote:

> I want to contribute some patches to the Perforce bundle, but I need
> to clear up some confusion first...
>
> http://macromates.com/wiki/Bundles/HowToContribute tells me to start
> by checking out the latest version into ~/Library/Application
> Support/TextMate/Bundles.  (That's where the Perforce bundle is now,
> which I downloaded using the GetBundle bundle.)
>
> But http://macromates.com/textmate/manual/bundles#installing_a_bundle
> tells me to create /Library/Application\ Support/TextMate/Bundles/ and
> install them there.
>
> Then I'm further confused by the following in
> http://macromates.com/wiki/Bundles/HowToContribute:
>
>> Normally it is not recommended that you checkout bundles to the above
>> location [~/Library/..., I guess], because when you change the bundle
>> items from inside TextMate, it saves changes to ~/Library/…,
>> potentially leading to merge conflicts if the files are updated in an
>> incompatible way on the server.
>>
>> If you already have done a full checkout of the repository to / 
>> Library
>> then you can instead do a symbolic link...
>
> So what should I do?  Should I check out the Perforce bundle to
> /Library/... or ~/Library/...?  Should I ignore the instructions to
> create a symbolic link, since I haven't done a full checkout to
> /Library/...?
>
> --
> Daryl Spitzer