Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Cross Platform Path issues

[Tom Lord]

    > From: Michael Grubb <address@hidden>

    > I know that Tom is reluctant to give up his 
    > cat/cat--branch/cat--branch--ver  directory structure (I really don't 
know 
    > why, I'm sure he has his reasons, none of which require that I 
    > understand)  

Existing archives.


    > but realistically that syntax is redundant, unneeded and far 
    > easier to change than any of the other pieces of software mentioned 
previously.

    > At any rate I guess we need to see what his final thoughts on the subject 
are.

You're SOL there.   It depends on who does what :-)

If, instead of low-level hacks to try to hide the issue from arch,
you're interested in chaning the "cat/..../...--ver" idiom -- that's
fine -- but you need to make those changes in an upward compatible
way.

-t