On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 6:44 PM, Enrico Forestieri <for...@lyx.org> wrote: > The two methods browseRelToParent() and browseRelToSub() in GuiView.cpp > both return a relative path. The only difference is that the first one > returns an absolute path if it would start with "../", and the second one > if it does not start with "../". So, even if a relative path is possible, > an absolute path may be returned by both. > > Both methods were introduced at http://www.lyx.org/trac/changeset/38915/lyxsvn > to fix bug 7540. I have read the discussion there, but could not make any > sense of why two methods behaving like that are necessary. A single method > returning a relative path (either starting or not by "../") would suffice. > A relative path is a relative path and this distinction makes no sense.
I think the following issue has relevant discussion: http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/7122 Scott
