[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Testing the lou_getTablePaths function
- From: François Ouellette <braille@xxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 10:47:32 -0400
Hi guys,
It seems that the absence unistd.h on Windows is a common issue. We can
find threads on many blogs, like this one:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/341817/is-there-a-replacement-for-unistd-h-for-windows-visual-c
Regards,
François.
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 10:17 AM, John J. Boyer <
john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> If we keep it we will have to find the Windows equivalent of unistd.h .
> I would rather just remove it.
>
> John
>
> On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 02:59:27PM +0100, Mesar Hameed wrote:
> > I would say keep it in for now, but dont expose it, why delete code that
> is already there.
> > If we implement the improved api and we find that getTablePaths turns
> out not to be needed then it can be removed later.
> >
> > Mesar
> > On Thu 21/06/12,08:55, John J. Boyer wrote:
> > > Hi Christian,
> > >
> > > Thanks for the explanation. I was not told this at the beginning, so I
> > > assumed that the environment variable just added additional places to
> > > look. This can be changed. However, since it seems to be agreed that
> the
> > > lou_getTablePaths functgion is not what is wanted, this should be
> > > eliminated first. Since some commits have been made since it was added,
> > > I don't think that a simple revert should be done. What do you suggest?
> > >
> > > John
> > >
> > > On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 03:11:18PM +0200, Christian Egli wrote:
> > > > "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > > >
> > > > > I always thought that if the user defines some special paths using
> > > > > LOUIS_TABLEPATH he might still want to access other tables in the
> > > > > current directory or in the tables subdirectory. What is the
> reason for
> > > > > stopping the search with LOUIS_TABLEPATH ?
> > > >
> > > > If I override a table locally and I have an error in it I will never
> > > > know, because liblouis silently keeps looking for a correct table,
> i.e.
> > > > a table that it can load. So in the end it will take the global one
> > > > without me noticing. If I explicitly put the global one on the path
> then
> > > > I consent to looking further. Otherwise I just want the local one
> and no
> > > > other.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks
> > > > Christian
> > > >
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