On 26 May 2010 09:20, Robert Goldman <rpgoldman@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.