Re: [RFA] New substitute-path commands

Andrew STUBBS
2006-07-07T16:45:13Z

Joel Brobecker wrote:
>> I think the suggested interface allowed a FROM argument for removing
>> that substitution alone. I still think this feature would be nice to have.
>
> Currently, we only provide one substitution rule, so the extra argument
> at this moment is not needed. My understanding is that, should more than
> one rule be needed, the plan is to provide this through a different type
> of interface - See Daniel's message.

Unless I misread Daniel's message, he was referring to an interface in
which pairs of FROM/TO paths are added, one at a time, to an unordered list.

Anyway, if your implementation only allows one (I didn't read it that
closely), then the extra argument clearly isn't necessary.

I would still like to see a solution where more than one mapping was
allowed, one for each of our various libraries, not to mention the
header files. I want to be able to ship our toolset to customers with a
number of 'preset' mappings, computed from the install location, and
still allow them to use the feature for their own sources.

Andrew