[fpc-pascal] Too tired? Forcedirectories does not seem to work

Reinier Olislagers reinierolislagers at gmail.com
Tue Feb 7 19:19:44 CET 2012


On 7-2-2012 18:34, Jürgen Hestermann wrote:
> Reinier Olislagers schrieb:
>> That's fine. If you just say "anything gets expanded to an absolute
>> path", in my mind:
>> 1. you're implying the thing you're expanding is relative (even if
>> you're not saying so)
> 
> No, IMO this is not true. A relative path...

Yes, it IS true ;) I'm talking about what it implies to ME (and possibly
other people)... Fortunately below we agree on assumptions ;)

>> 2. you're leaving users to guess what "expanded" means exactly. From
>> relative to absolute? What placeholders get "expanded", if any, etc.
> True. It is assumed that users know about relative and absolute paths
> and existing placeholders. Of course, there is no harm to add more
> explanations but someone has to do so and time is limited.
Agreed about resources. Might help if fpdoc and/or lazde did not totally
screw up the XML so sending a diff is impossible.
Ah well... No sense beating dead horses/going over things that already
have been discussed in the list.

>> Might be that I'm just too stupid sometimes, but if we can help the
>> stupid users too, why not ;)
> 
> Agree. Too much information is better then too little information.
> Assumption are often wrong. I was expecting environment variables too be
> expanded but it seems they are not ;-)
ACK ;)



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