How to access "resources"? about mint HOT 6 OPEN

I think that setting the RESOURCE_PATH to an absolute path will make it more easily usuable.

In regards to where the resources should be linked to, this should be changed due to this symlink issue and if people aren't using the RESOURCE_PATH env (we can't expect them to).

The usual place to put resources from my undestanding is /usr/local/share/$tool. Your suggested /usr/local/lib/${tool}/resources/ is another option though not standard I belive. In either case these resources could be symlinked back to Mint's installation directory, similar to how homebrew does it.

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Any resources can just be accessed with relative paths eg "scripts" or "../scripts".
Let me know if that doesn't work

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Actually that might be incorrect, perhaps it's Bundle.main.bundlePath + "/scripts"

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Thanks. Let's put symlink in the standard place 👌

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Hi, what is the status here? I had some issues recently trying to access the resources. I ended up with following symlink to find "real" binary location, and so the resources folder.

This is what I ended up with:

import PathKit

...

var tool = Path("$tool") // swiftymocky in my case
var bundlePath = Path(Bundle.main.bundlePath)
var resourcesPath: Path {
    return (try? (bundlePath + tool).symlinkDestination())?.removingLastComponent() ?? bundlePath
}

I'm just a bit concerned if it would keep working? As far as I got, when you move the stuff to /usr/local/share/$tool it would still be symlinked in the mint directory, right?

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I haven't had time to work on this. But yes, the directories would probably still be symlinked back to the mint directory

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