Re: include.spyce odd path behavior - relative vs absolute paths

For most use cases it's more convenient to treat the path as a "path"
the way the browser would interpret it.  That's the only reason it works
the way it does.  If I were to revisit this for spyce 2.2 I would
probably do it the way you suggest and just have the user use
util.url2file if they want the docroot-relative path, but in earlier
versions it's enough extra verbosity to import spyceUtil and do that
that it wasn't worth it.

-Jonathan

On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:44:25 -0500, "Jason Persampieri"
<[email protected]> said:
> Howdy folks.  Spyce newbie here.
> 
> I have noticed an oddity in the *include.spyce* behavior.
> 
> If the argument is a relative path - *include.spyce('../include.spy')* -
> everything works fine.
> 
> But if I pass an absolute path -
> *include.spyce('/cluster/home/user/public_html/share/include.spy')
> *- it looks like spyce prepends the spyce home directory (which in this
> case
> is the same as the http home) on to the path - * spyceNotFound:
> spyceNotFound exception: could not find
> "/common/www/html/cluster/home/user/public_html/share/include.spy"
> 
> *While the absolute path behavior seems consistent with the
> documentation,
> this is incredibly odd.  If I specify an absolute path, shouldn't it
> assume
> I'm pointing to exactly what I want?
> 
> this whole thing is especially annoying since I need to *execfile  *a
> file
> in the same directory (which *only* takes absolute paths seemingly) and
> hence need to keep both a relative and absolute path reference.  Piddly
> to
> be sure, but annoying.
> 
> That said, Spyce is really rocking my world, and is *exactly* the right
> solution for my project.
> 
> Jason Persampieri
> Programmer
> Boston College Bioinformatics Dept.

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