Re: Relative alternates question

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Jan Hudec <bulb@xxxxxx> writes:

> And my question is, is there any good reason to reject relative paths in
> alternates of an alternate? From what I see the recursive call to
> link_alt_odb_entries (via link_alt_odb_entry and read_info_alternates) has
> all the information it needs to resolve such paths.

As long as you are careful not to introduce loops that cause the
rest of the code to add the same thing twice, I do not think
there is anything fundamentally wrong with relative alternate
paths.  The original motivation of that check was not much more
than "let's not complicate our lives by supporting it", I think.


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