Re: [Gnucap-devel] plugin plans

[Felix Salfelder]

On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 05:52:07PM -0500, al davis wrote:
> On Friday 13 February 2015, Felix Salfelder wrote:
> > currently gnucap does not locate gnucap.rc in a useful way. i
> > have experimented with this in gnucap-uf, essentially it
> > looks in cwd and parents first. also it changes cwd to the
> > location of the included file, so transitive includes are
> > working. this is not as simple as i wished...
> 
> what should it be?

- flexible
- uncomplicated
- unsurprising
- portable
- backwards compatible (?!)

gnucap.rc does rely on the include command, and i think this is perfect.
the hacks in gnucap-uf are quite practical, however there are side
effects (bugs? features?).

for example, changing cwd before include works well (and transitive
includes are inevitable!!1), but the output redirection is affected.
prepending to an includepath might the preferrable and achieve the same.
gnucap does not know about includepaths right now...

what are your thoughts on either includepaths or transitivity?

cheers
felix