[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread] 

List:       mason-devel
Subject:    Re: [Mason-devel] Re: [Mason-checkins] CVS: mason/dist/lib/HTML/Mason Tools.pm,1.71,1.72
From:       "Jonathan Swartz" <swartz () pobox ! com>
Date:       2003-09-12 20:54:53
[Download RAW message or body]


----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Williams" <ken@mathforum.org>
To: "Dave Rolsky" <autarch@urth.org>
Cc: <mason-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 1:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Mason-devel] Re: [Mason-checkins] CVS:
mason/dist/lib/HTML/Mason Tools.pm,1.71,1.72


>
> On Friday, September 12, 2003, at 03:42  PM, Dave Rolsky wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, Ken Williams wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> On Thursday, September 11, 2003, at 10:11  PM, Dave Rolsky wrote:
> >>> --- Tools.pm 4 Jun 2003 20:44:02 -0000 1.71
> >>> +++ Tools.pm 12 Sep 2003 03:11:47 -0000 1.72
> >>> @@ -113,14 +113,14 @@
> >>>      # Just like File::Spec::canonpath, but we're having trouble
> >>>      # getting a patch through to them.
> >>
> >> Say, a guy I know pretty well is now the File::Spec maintainer.  Do we
> >> remember what the issue was that we needed to solve?
> >
> > I was thinking of this.  I have no clue what the problem is.  I looked
> > at
> > the most recent F::S::Unix::canonpath and it seems radically different
> > from what's in H::M::Tools now.
> >
>
> I took a closer look, and I think we added translation from /foo/../bar
> to /bar .  That's something that can't go into File::Spec because it
> isn't necessarily accurate, the two paths on Unix could point to
> different files if foo is a symlink.  So we either need to find a
> URL-compressing routine, or keep our own one.
>

Ah, right. If that's the case then we should just put the above explanation
into the docs for mason_canonpath, otherwise we'll wonder again in a year
why we redefined it.



-------------------------------------------------------
This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek
Welcome to geek heaven.
http://thinkgeek.com/sf
_______________________________________________
Mason-devel mailing list
Mason-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mason-devel
[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread]