Re: [binarycloud-dev] Handling of resources/ in htdocs

[Alex B. <en...@tu...>]

> Hi Jason,
> 
>> I too have wondered this.  I'd vote highly against the use of any
>> absolute paths unless they are preceed by a definable constant.
> The constant may be an option BC_HTDOCS_RESOURCES or someting like that.
> Hmmm... I think that needs a bit thinking.
> 

Yes, the way to solve this is during the make process in combination with a
path constant:

BC_PATH_RESOURCES

so all of your paths _will_ be absolute, but based on a variable :)

_a


>>> The way I sove this currently is running a symlink to
>>> build/en/htdocs/resources in every htdocs subdir and using
>>> relative paths in the templates i.e
>>> src=resources/whatever/file.gif.
> 
> Just discovered this does _not_ work when using path vars like:
> 
> script/var.value/
> 
> :(
> 
> Andi