How to write experimental output into a different folder?

[nikohansen]

I have troubles to write data generated in the cocoex module into a different folder than ./exdata/something. See also #405.

The relevant code seems to be:

  /* Create the result_folder inside the "exdata" folder */
  path = coco_allocate_string(COCO_PATH_MAX + 1);
  memcpy(path, outer_folder_name, strlen(outer_folder_name) + 1);
  coco_join_path(path, COCO_PATH_MAX, result_folder, NULL);
  coco_create_unique_directory(&path);
  coco_info("Results will be output to folder %s", path);

where

const char *outer_folder_name = "exdata";

I would kind-of really need to specify the full path on my own, but this is not possible @ttusar ?

[ttusar]

True, not possible (you found where it’s hardcoded).

It shouldn’t be too hard to fix this, though...

[nikohansen]

Should we try to fix this before the release or is it already fixed?

[ttusar]

This is already fixed in the development branch. A folder different than exdata (even an absolute one) can be specified via the outer_folder observer option.