Re: PATCH: relpath

[Pádraig Brady]

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On 12/01/2011 12:10 PM, Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 12:07:00PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> Peng Yu wrote:
>>> I have submitted the patch long time ago as I was asked to add the patch. 
>>> However, nobody really takes a look at it. I feel really sad. Could anybody 
>>> take a look and see if it is above the quality criterion and let me know 
>>> what I need to change so this small utility can be added to the repository?
>> 
>> First of all, you will need to complete some copyright assignment paperwork. 
>>  Please follow these steps:
>> 
>> http://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/HACKING#n444
>> 
>> Pádraig Brady and I talked about this today, and he suggested to call this 
>> new program realpath, and with usage like this:
>> 
>> realpath --relative-start=DIR FILE ...
> 
> In that case, please make its interface compatible with Debian's realpath: 
> http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=realpath 
> http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=users/robert/realpath.git

Which is:

realpath [-s|--strip] [-z|--zero]  filename  ...

I.E. the same except that debian's also has a --strip option to:
"Only strip . and .., components, but do not resolve symlinks".

If we implement --strip, then it means Debian could prefer the
coreutils version, which is a superset.

Using realpath, means we get more related functionality
into a single tool, and also we overlap with FreeBSDs util
of the same name. No options proposed so far conflict with
existing implementations.

cheers,
Pádraig.
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