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Guido van Rossumf06ee5f1996-11-27 19:52:01 +00001#! /usr/bin/env python
Guido van Rossumb83ec8f1992-05-19 13:52:02 +00002
3# A rather specialized script to make sure that a symbolic link named
4# RCS exists pointing to a real RCS directory in a parallel tree
5# referenced as RCStree in an ancestor directory.
6# (I use this because I like my RCS files to reside on a physically
7# different machine).
8
9import os
10
11def main():
12 rcstree = 'RCStree'
13 rcs = 'RCS'
14 if os.path.islink(rcs):
15 print `rcs`, 'is a symlink to', `os.readlink(rcs)`
16 return
17 if os.path.isdir(rcs):
18 print `rcs`, 'is an ordinary directory'
19 return
20 if os.path.exists(rcs):
21 print `rcs`, 'is a file?!?!'
22 return
23 #
24 p = os.getcwd()
25 up = ''
26 down = ''
27 # Invariants:
28 # (1) join(p, down) is the current directory
29 # (2) up is the same directory as p
30 # Ergo:
31 # (3) join(up, down) is the current directory
32 #print 'p =', `p`
33 while not os.path.isdir(os.path.join(p, rcstree)):
34 head, tail = os.path.split(p)
35 #print 'head =', `head`, '; tail =', `tail`
36 if not tail:
37 print 'Sorry, no ancestor dir contains', `rcstree`
38 return
39 p = head
40 up = os.path.join(os.pardir, up)
41 down = os.path.join(tail, down)
42 #print 'p =', `p`, '; up =', `up`, '; down =', `down`
43 there = os.path.join(up, rcstree)
44 there = os.path.join(there, down)
45 there = os.path.join(there, rcs)
46 if os.path.isdir(there):
47 print `there`, 'already exists'
48 else:
49 print 'making', `there`
50 makedirs(there)
51 print 'making symlink', `rcs`, '->', `there`
52 os.symlink(there, rcs)
53
54def makedirs(p):
55 if not os.path.isdir(p):
56 head, tail = os.path.split(p)
57 makedirs(head)
58 os.mkdir(p, 0777)
59
60main()