Re: Creating $BDIR before :conf ? [PATCH]

Adriaan de Groot wrote:

> On Friday 25 November 2005 16:40, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> > Adriaan de Groot wrote:
> > > :conf write header $BDIR/config.h
> > >
> > > Works, sortof. :conf write header doesn't create $BDIR
> >
> > I don't think it is a job of ":conf init".  ":conf write header" woul=
d
> > be a logical place to make sure the destination directory exists.
> > This can be done either by recognizing that $BDIR is being used, or j=
ust
> > for any directory.  I think the last is preferred.
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> Attached patch tries to create the path for the written file and solves=
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> problem. I'm not sure what should be done with remote files for writing=
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> header.

Another method is to pass the "mkdir" attribute to remote_copy_move().
Can you try out the patch below?

Perhaps the "force" attribute should also be set, so that the file is
overwritten when it already exists?  I would think a user expects this
file to be overwritten without a warning.


--- DoConf.py~	Fri Sep  5 17:04:48 2003
+++ DoConf.py	Fri Nov 25 17:28:05 2005
@@ -268,7 +268,7 @@
             from CopyMove import remote_copy_move
             remote_copy_move(rpstack, recdict, 1,
                              [ {"name" : context.headerfilename} ],
-                             { "name" : fname }, {}, 0, errmsg =3D 1)
+                             { "name" : fname }, {'mkdir' : 1}, 0, errms=
g =3D 1)
         elif what =3D=3D "recipe":
             try:
                 f =3D open(fname, "w")

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