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Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Expand file installation paths in generate
From: |
Evan Hanson |
Subject: |
Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Expand file installation paths in generated install scripts |
Date: |
Sat, 9 Jun 2018 18:41:22 +1200 |
On 2018-06-09 8:35, address@hidden wrote:
> I understand the motivation but relative pathnames in these kind of env
> variables
> are a recipe for desaster - it's a global setting that may be used from all
> sorts of
> places. Once we start addressing this in one place, other places will follow
> and
> we end up taking measures for all sorts of stupid corner cases. I'd rather
> forbid
> relative pathnames than trying to be more convenient than is healthy...
Yeah, you're probably right. Forbidding it sounds good to me.
In that case, I'll make this an error with a clear message. Otherwise,
people are bound to try it and confuse themselves (not having RTFM of
course).
Evan