[Geany-devel] [PATCH 12/19] Use relative paths in the project files

[Lex Trotman]

>
> I'm a bit worried about having too many special cases (like doing
> something else when the project file is outside the base directory,
> especially when it only fixes some problems but introduces another
> ones) and possibly doing unexpected things (users probably don't
> expect that files start opening when they edit project properties). So
> my current preference is:
>
> 1. Have relative paths as a global option (per-project option isn't
> probably needed because every person has usually only one preferred
> way of storing project files)

Ok

> 2. Use full paths for files outside of the project directory (relative
> paths couldn't be used for open files from other volumes)

Ok

> 3. Use full paths for the session file (already works this way)

Ok

> 4. Use relative paths against the project file (IMO using relative
> paths against the base directory doesn't solve anything and it's more
> logical to have all the relative paths against the file in which they
> are defined)

Good points, neither is a really good solution, so I don't care which you do.

To maintain backward compatibility why not continue to save the
absolute paths in [files] and save the relative paths in a separate
group in the project file eg [files-relative].  And that way you will
know which are relative paths without checking.

Cheers
Lex

>
> Cheers,
>
> Jiri
>
>>
>> Cheers
>> Lex
>>
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