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Make output files/folders readonly

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
42/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
rust
Domain
data

Research direction

Start by locating the output-generation path and reviewing the existing settings.toml configuration. Compare readonly file and folder behavior on Windows and Unix, including whether deletion becomes inconvenient. Done means the project has a decided, tested behavior for generated outputs and any required configuration.

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Description

It might make sense to make the output files that MUSE2 creates be readonly so that users don't accidentally modify them, which could be bad if the data files are being used for something important.

I think there are a few things to consider before doing this:

  • Will making everything readonly make it annoying to delete output folders because of extra warnings etc.? This behaviour might be different between different OSes. If it is annoying, we may want to make this configurable in settings.toml.
  • What are the implications of making a folder rather than individual files readonly? Should we do this as well given that the behaviour will be different between Windows and Unix? On Windows, it seemingly has very little effect and you can still write files to the folder.
Dominant language
Rust
Stars
8
Forks
5
Avg merge
11h 31m
Merged PRs (30d)
33

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