Re: [phenixbb] moving user home directories

Hi Nat, My 2c: First off, I'm 100% behind the idea of using text files rather than pickles...so if anything goes wrong it can be fixed with a judicious sed script. Second, I would suggest using relative paths whenever practical... i.e. if object (file/directory) is in the project directory or a subdirectory thereof use a relative path, but if it's somewhere else on the file tree entirely (i.e /data for images) use an absolute path. At this point I think most of the migration issues that have been mentioned would vanish. Third, it would be really great if you could export a collection of jobs (including input files, output files and 'control' (phenix) files) as a zip-file or tar file that could be re-imported into another user's phenix project. The use case is where you give someone else in the lab a hand with building or running some phenix jobs so you create a new project, run those jobs and send them back the result (say the model). For teaching purposes especially it would be much better if you could send back the 'jobs' to re-include in their project (so that they know how to run the job themselves next time rather than bugging you!). On the up side, if job inport/export via a tar/zip file worked you wouldn't necessarily need any other project migration tool as people could just zip up their phenix project then 'unpack' it on the new machine. Fourth, perhaps I'm just used to CCP4i but I'd really like to see the job history on the main phenix window rather than hidden in a dialog box. Sorry, that ended up more like $2. Stephen On 4 November 2010 18:16, Nathaniel Echols wrote:

On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 2:00 AM, Randy Read wrote:

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Although having a sysadmin change the location of your home directory is unusual, a much more common problem is buying a new computer and copying your home directory from one to the other.  It can be very difficult (e.g. when going from Linux to Mac or the reverse) to get the same absolute path for your home directory.  So hopefully your project migration tool will allow that too.

Working on it. . . a lot of stuff to clean up before this will behave reliably, but it's starting to be functional.  Among other things, I'm going back to text files, but with some extra optimizations for speed.  I'm also going to make the default file handling more rational along the way.

If anyone has strong feelings about how the project management/interfaces in the GUI should (or should not) work, now would be an excellent time to make them known.  (Comments can be sent to me directly instead of the list.)

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