Hi all (first post!),

I've written some PDE files with code that I would like to share
among a few projects (simple stuff, not worth the effort of making
a proper library). I'm just wondering what the best way of doing
this? My directory set up looks like something like this:

code/project1/project1.pde
code/project2/project2.pde
code/lib/shared.pde

I would like shared.pde to be shared by project1 and
project2. I've tried creating symlinks:

code/project1/shared.pde -> ../lib/shared.pde
code/project2/shared.pde -> ../lib/shared.pde

But sometimes the IDE overwrites the symlink with
an actual file (making keeping files in sync tricky,
especially since I have them under revision control
(subversion).

Any suggestions would be appreciated!

Best regards,
Chris

as far as i know its possible :
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/using-symlinks-in-windows-vista/

this probably make it easier to use :
http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/hardlinkshellext.html

Try making hard links to the files instead of a symbolic link; if you are lucky it will "modify" the hardinked files rather than create a new file to replace the existing link each time. This will allow you to keep the "copies" synchronised, at least. Maybe it is easiest to just take a copy of the not-quite-library files; new features aren't going to be needed in old sketches anyhow, and version problems will be "solved" by the necessary version always being in the folder it is needed.

With regards to linking under Windows, I've used NTFS Link for several years now. I don't know how I'd do without it.

-spxl