On Dec 3, 10:04 pm, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote: > > Just add a README.txt in needed empty directories - it can say "This > > directory is needed, and is distributed empty." -- DONE! > > Actually, even if directories are versioned, this is a helpful, useful > > kind of README to have regardless. > > If it were so easy we would have done it already. > > There are two problems. Consider the errors folder. README.txt would > show up in the admin error page.
Then find a way to do it - change so that errors does not show either README or anything that has the pattern '__.*__'; It will not break backward compatibility - there are always ways to do this, if you want to. > Consider the uploads page. How do I > hgingore everything BUT README.txt? http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/hgignore.5.html: I'm not sure how to negate a whole pattern (except for the ugly sequence of character class things); if you can't find something better, this should do it: ^[^R][^E][^A][^D][^M][^E]$ > > Can you suggest a solution that DOES NOT require change the web2py > source code? > No - but you change the code most each day, so this is not a reasonable constraint anyway (duh!) - all you should worry about is backward compatibility. This does can be done to not break any of that. - Yarko > Massimo -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To post to this group, send email to web...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en.