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[platform] Sharing "platform" between two platform apps
Perhaps my most confusing subject so far... :)
I plan to distribute a platform app within another platform app and would like for them to share resources, primarily the "platform" dir in order to save space.
At first I tried with a symlink on linux at it worked just fine but I want it also to work on windows.
So then I tried editing nestedapp.clusters adding ../ before platform
It just resulted in
../platform*/lib/nbexec: No such file or directory
Then I found nbexec=`echo "$progdir"/../platform*/lib/nbexec` in the launcher script.
I guess I perhaps could patch that, but not the exe.
Is it possible to do what I want?
/Patrik
Re: [platform] Sharing "platform" between two platform apps
Posted by Patrik Karlström <pa...@trixon.se>.
Den onsdag 21 januari 2026 kl. 20:16, Neil C Smith <ne...@apache.org> skrev:
> On Wed, 21 Jan 2026 at 17:58, Patrik Karlström patrik@trixon.se wrote:
>
> > Perhaps my most confusing subject so far... :)
> >
> > I plan to distribute a platform app within another platform app and would like for them to share resources, primarily the "platform" dir in order to save space.
> >
> > At first I tried with a symlink on linux at it worked just fine but I want it also to work on windows.
> >
> > So then I tried editing nestedapp.clusters adding ../ before platform
> > It just resulted in
> > ../platform*/lib/nbexec: No such file or directory
> >
> > Then I found nbexec=`echo "$progdir"/../platform*/lib/nbexec` in the launcher script.
> > I guess I perhaps could patch that, but not the exe.
> >
> > Is it possible to do what I want?
>
>
> Can they be at the same level? Or do you need the other application
> to be in a separate subfolder?
>
> I used to ship a platform application that had two parts, with
> separate launchers in bin, separate cluster and conf files in etc, and
> different cluster sets for each.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Neil
>
I just thought it would clash somehow being on the same level so I did not test that.
It works perfectly with your suggestion, thank you!
/Patrik
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Re: [platform] Sharing "platform" between two platform apps
Posted by Neil C Smith <ne...@apache.org>.
On Wed, 21 Jan 2026 at 17:58, Patrik Karlström <pa...@trixon.se> wrote:
>
> Perhaps my most confusing subject so far... :)
>
> I plan to distribute a platform app within another platform app and would like for them to share resources, primarily the "platform" dir in order to save space.
>
> At first I tried with a symlink on linux at it worked just fine but I want it also to work on windows.
>
> So then I tried editing nestedapp.clusters adding ../ before platform
> It just resulted in
> ../platform*/lib/nbexec: No such file or directory
>
> Then I found nbexec=`echo "$progdir"/../platform*/lib/nbexec` in the launcher script.
> I guess I perhaps could patch that, but not the exe.
>
> Is it possible to do what I want?
Can they be at the same level? Or do you need the other application
to be in a separate subfolder?
I used to ship a platform application that had two parts, with
separate launchers in bin, separate cluster and conf files in etc, and
different cluster sets for each.
Best wishes,
Neil
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