On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 9:15 PM, Clint Byrum <[email protected]> wrote: > Excerpts from Olaf van der Spek's message of Fri Apr 08 08:38:52 -0700 2011: >> On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Stewart Smith <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > In elliot we had it so that the default catalog (named "local") was >> > still the working directory of the server. I'm moving to change that, so >> > that the working directory is the datadir. So it means that code doing >> > filesystem path operations has to start caring about the catalog being >> > in the path. >> >> Shouldn't absolute paths be used to avoid depending on working dir? >> > > I think you need to qualify that a little more. What is gained by this > approach? What is lost by the current approach?
Good question. If working dir is never changed it's probably fine. Might be a problem if you want to present an absolute to the user somewhere. -- Olaf _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
