[developers] setting the tsdb skeleton and home directories

[Emily M. Bender]

Thanks, Francis.  I'll update it.
Emily

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 1:55 AM, Francis Bond <bond at ieee.org> wrote:
> 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
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> +++ Universitetet i Oslo (IFI); Boks 1080 Blindern; 0316 Oslo; (+47) 2284 0125
>> +++    --- oe at ifi.uio.no; stephan at oepen.net; http://www.emmtee.net/oe/ ---
>> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
>
>
> --
> Francis Bond <http://www3.ntu.edu.sg/home/fcbond/>
> Division of Linguistics and Multilingual Studies
> Nanyang Technological University



-- 
Emily M. Bender
Associate Professor
Department of Linguistics
Check out CLMS on facebook! http://www.facebook.com/uwclma