Paths for resources are hard-coded, requiring the app to reside in a very specific location on the user's hard disk about wail HOT 6 OPEN

Consider using the user's /Library directory in OS X or giving the ability to set these values on first start.

from wail.

QuickSilver uses this approach (see attached pic).

from wail.

A templating system like Mustache ( https://github.com/defunkt/pystache ) to allow these paths to be configured on first-run or re-configured in the app.

from wail.

Another clever method taken by Kaleidoscope:

from wail.

Sawood's proposed modification to wayback.xml would remedy this issue. Upon launch of the WAIL binary, the current path of the binary could set system-level environment variables, which would then be read in the Spring file here.

Relevant OpenWayback ticket: iipc/openwayback#217

wayback.xml

    wayback.basedir=#{systemEnvironment['WAYBACK_BASEDIR']?:'/tmp/openwayback'}
    ...

    wayback.archivedir.1=${wayback.basedir}/files1/
    wayback.archivedir.2=${wayback.basedir}/files2/

    wayback.url.scheme=#{systemEnvironment['WAYBACK_URL_SCHEME']?:'http'}
    wayback.url.host=#{systemEnvironment['WAYBACK_URL_HOST']?:'localhost'}
    wayback.url.port=#{systemEnvironment['WAYBACK_URL_PORT']?:'8080'}

from wail.

from wail.