where to store Android/Desktop common resources?

[guiv42]

@helge17 I would appreciate your opinion about this.

I have recently reorganized all folders in this repo, to separate clearly what is specific to desktop app, specific to android app, and common (#166).
Then, I have implemented a mechanism to use translation files in common modules (#201). For this, I needed both Android and desktop apps to access the same translation files, and I added a symlink from Android to Desktop.
I need to do something similar for one dedicated resource file (tuning.xml), that needs to be shared and not duplicated (see #269).

Somehow, these symlinks from Android to Desktop seem to me inconsistent with the android/desktop/common organization of folders. Following approach would seem more logical to me, for shared resources:

• create a folder "common/resources"
• store in this folder the shared resources
  • folder "lang" containing translation files, currently in "desktop/tuxguitar/share/"
  • "tuning.xml" file
• in both android and desktop folders, symlink to the "common/resources" folder

?

[helge17]

I think your approach of moving shared resources to the common folder and linking to that folder from desktop and android is good!

[guiv42]

OK thanks, I'll do that

[guiv42]

It's done, for "lang" and "tunings" folders.
re-opening discussion: should the perl scripts in misc folder also be updated? (I never use them...)

[helge17]

I will care about the build scripts.

[guiv42]

OK thanks

[helge17]

Done in commit a9fbd52.