Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
>> Lars> Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Lars> | This would break compatibility with older versions of
>> fdesign.
>>
>> Lars> Would it really?
>>
>> Lars> Older versions of fdesign only works with the *.fd file in the
>> Lars> same dir as where fdesign is run...
>>
>> Lars> So I see no compatibility problems.
>>
>> Good remark, it seems you are right.
>>
>> Angus, this probably means that we can/should get rid of the -dir
>> argument.
>
| We would merely be swapping one semantic that works for another one
| which is not yet proven. I don't see what it gains us. As I see it I
| can do:
Note that the old semantic is kept as well.
Only if you do something that was not possible with old fdesign the
semantics change.
>
| $ cd $HOME
| $ fdesign -dir destdir -convert foo/bar.fd
>
| which seems more flexible to me than Lars' proposal.
surely not.
(and I am not saying that -dir should be removed, I am saying that
fdesign should output to pwd (unless -dir is specified of course.))
--
Lgb
