On Nov 15, 2007, at 7:31 PM, Johannes Sixt wrote:
On Thursday 15 November 2007 07:53, Steffen Prohaska wrote:
Now I'm wondering if we could make path relocation a bit more
explicit. How about doing something like.
system_wide = relocate_path(ETC_GITCONFIG);
and relocate_path(const char *) would expand a format
string in path. At this point I see only a single %s
that would be expanded with the install prefix. If
ETC_GITCONFIG is "%s/etc/gitconfig" relocate path will return
"C:/msysgit/bin/etc/gitconfig" for my above example. It is
basically a printf with the install prefix path.
I don't see the problem that you are trying to solve.
Path relocation would be more explicit:
1) Paths that need to be relocated are filtered through
relocate_path(). That's easy to understand.
2) All the code prefixing the path is in relocate_path().
This avoids code duplication.
3) Path that should be relocated contain "%s" in the Makefile.
This indicates that some string expansion may take place.
(1) and (2) would be useful even if you do not agree with (3).
The code in PATCH 9/11 and PATCH 11/11 looks very similar.
If the prefixing code went into a separate function, we'd
have less code. Also, relocate_path() could be useful at
other places. For example, I'd use it to locate the HTML
documentation relative to the installation directory.
Steffen
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