[developers] setting the tsdb skeleton and home directories

[Francis Bond]

Thanks.

Emily:  May I suggest a change to lab2?

On 31 January 2012 17:46, Stephan Oepen <oe at ifi.uio.no> wrote:
> hi francis,
>
> i would discourage setting the variables directly (i.e. the
> second method below).  using the tsdb() sub-commands
> :home and :skeletons does some sanity checking on the
> new values and further adjusts [incr tsdb()]-internal status
> appropriately.
>
> best, oe
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 10:36, Francis Bond <bond at ieee.org> wrote:
>> G'day,
>>
>> I notice that we have two ways documented of setting the tsdb skeleton
>> and home directories:
>>
>> >From the wiki:
>> (tsdb:tsdb :home "/home/oe/src/itsdb/src/tsdb/home")
>> (tsdb:tsdb :skeletons "/home/oe/src/lkb/src/tsdb/skeletons/english")
>>
>> >From Emily's course:
>> (in-package :tsdb)
>> (setf *tsdb-home* "path-to-tsdb/home")
>> (setf *tsdb-skeleton-directory* "path-to-tsdb/skeletons")
>>
>> I think the first sets and updates the directories, while the second
>> just sets them.   Does anyone know if there is any reason to prefer
>> one to the other?  I am happy to add both to the wiki, but I would
>> like to also give advice as to which is preferred.
>>
>> Yours,
>>
>> --
>> Francis Bond <http://www3.ntu.edu.sg/home/fcbond/>
>> Division of Linguistics and Multilingual Studies
>> Nanyang Technological University
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Francis Bond <http://www3.ntu.edu.sg/home/fcbond/>
Division of Linguistics and Multilingual Studies
Nanyang Technological University