Cross-platform path specification (was RE: Access directory relatively)
Andreas Raab
Andreas.Raab at gmx.de
Mon Aug 5 22:24:08 UTC 2002
> > What about using backslash "\"?
>
> Well, as a Mac programmer I'd vote for :, but don't want to
> get into some pathname delimiter holy war. :)
And it wouldn't work anyways since colons are used for keywords :->
> Right now, I'm happy if I can trust FileDirectory default
> pointing to the image/changes files and coding relative to that.
"Trust" is a relative thing since you can change the "default" location
by using something like FileDirectory setDefaultDirectoryFrom:
'foo/bar/baz' (which in fact we're using in the Squeakland plugin in
order to point all file locations to the trusted user space).
Cheers,
- Andreas
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