On 26 May 2010 09:20, Robert Goldman <rpgold...@sift.info> wrote: > On 5/25/10 May 25 -11:11 AM, Faré wrote: >> I'm not sure what you want, but try "" for current directory, ".." for up, >> etc. >> ".." is actually not recognized by ASDF but passed to the >> implementation, and from it to the OS. > > Question: if ".." is handled by the OS, does that mean it may not be > portable (especially on Windows)? If so, do we need a native-to-ASDF > way to specify a (:relative :up) or (:relative :back) pathname with a > string? > It would be good if ".." were handled specially by ASDF like "" is, but it would have made the code more complex than it already is for a feature that is both more rarely needed, and more portably supported as "..".
It would probably be nice to add ASDF-side parsing of ".." in ASDF 2.1, but at this point, I'm wary to change anything not necessary in the code before ASDF 2. [ François-René ÐVB Rideau | Reflection&Cybernethics | http://fare.tunes.org ] Funny how the so-called money-disparaging anti-materialist are always so prompt to demand other people's money in the form of taxes. _______________________________________________ asdf-devel mailing list asdf-devel@common-lisp.net http://common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/asdf-devel
