[Gnucash-changes] r12956 - gnucash/trunk/src - Major step in
extraction of application startup from guile.
Chris Shoemaker
c.shoemaker at cox.net
Mon Jan 23 14:14:56 EST 2006
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 01:49:32PM -0500, David Hampton wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 12:38 -0500, Chris Shoemaker wrote:
>
> > Caveat: We have multiple mechanisms for handling the filename
> > argument string -- some in guile and some in C. The C-side mechanisms
> > (in engine/gnc-filepath-utils.c) seem a little nicer than the guile
> > ones (in main.scm). They have slightly different behavior (e.g. which
> > paths they'll search for data files.) They both handle URIs and
> > making absolute paths out of relative ones. This patch switches from
> > using the guile functions to the C function. I've tested that the common
> > cases are handled the same way, but it wouldn't surprise me if some
> > corner-cases are not.
>
> Nice work. Did you test with and without the --opt-style-install
> configure argument? That's where most of the path search stuff trips
> up.
Hrmm.. no, I only tested /with/ --opt-style-install. But, this
particular chunk of path searching is looking for the user's data file,
not any installed resource, so I think it's independent of install
style.
-chris
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