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RE: Alias modules - exclusion directory bug
From: |
Jim.Hyslop |
Subject: |
RE: Alias modules - exclusion directory bug |
Date: |
Thu, 26 Feb 2004 17:28:03 -0500 |
lawrence.jones@ugsplm.com wrote:
> Matt Butt writes:
> >
> > The exclusion of !MyModule/as
> > also excludes the MyModule/asp directory. I assume this is a bug as
> > this behaviour is not mentioned in the manual and there is
> no way I can
> > find of making this work as expected.
>
> It was apparently a deliberate design decision since matching a prefix
> is more complicated than matching an entire string. As far as I can
> tell, it has always worked that way.
I'm assuming that the original implementors took the simplest approach,
which would suggest to me that the exclusion should work as Matt expects,
i.e. only exclude the as subdirectory, not as* . Am I missing something
here?
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Jim Hyslop
Senior Software Designer
Leitch Technology International Inc. (<http://www.leitch.com/>)
Columnist, C/C++ Users Journal (<http://www.cuj.com/experts>)