Symlink Spotify app instead of copying it

[citelao]

Symlinking the custom Spotify app to the ~/Spotify directory should allow easier updates.

PHP has a standard filesystem library. I believe symlink() works.

[vdesabou]

That's what I used to do:

But many users got issues with it, so I ended up doing a "cp -R"

I think i tried to use symlink but did not manage to make it work (I'm a newbie in PHP)

The copy is only done once, the first time the workflow is launched after an update, so it is quite acceptable :-)
But if you manage to use symlink, I'll steal your code !

Are you planning to use the same Spotify App?

Thanks

[citelao]

First I want to test speed differences for search using the metadata API vs the app API, then I'll try implementing my own program.

I'll do some tinkering with symlinks and see what I get.

[citelao]

What errors where people getting? Perhaps ~/Spotify didn't exist?

[vdesabou]

No, it existed but it was not a valid directory. As if the sym link was corrupted

Le 26 juin 2013 à 19:19, Ben Stolovitz notifications@github.com a écrit :

What errors where people getting? Perhaps ~/Spotify didn't exist?

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[citelao]

You need to mkdir ~/Spotify and then symlink to ~/Spotify/miniplayer— otherwise it won't work.

On Wednesday, June 26, 2013 at 1:29 PM, vdesabou wrote:

No, it existed but it was not a valid directory. As if the sym link was corrupted

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What errors where people getting? Perhaps ~/Spotify didn't exist?

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[vdesabou]

I did that:

exec("mkdir -p ~/Spotify");
exec("ln -s '".$w->path()."/spotify-app-miniplayer' ~/Spotify");

Shouldn't it be working?

[citelao]

Try

exec("ln -s '".$w->path()."/spotify-app-miniplayer' ~/Spotify/miniplayer");

On Wednesday, June 26, 2013 at 1:49 PM, vdesabou wrote:

I did that:
exec("mkdir -p ~/Spotify"); exec("ln -s '".$w->path()."/spotify-app-miniplayer' ~/Spotify");
Shouldn't it be working?

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[citelao]

See pull request #3