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On October 30, 2010, tjaden@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Revision: 13860
> http://alleg.svn.sourceforge.net/alleg/?rev=13860&view=rev
> Author: tjaden
> Date: 2010-10-30 07:46:26 +0000 (Sat, 30 Oct 2010)
>
> Log Message:
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> Make al_get_fs_entry_name and al_get_current_directory return strings
> instead of ALLEGRO_PATH. The filesystem functions all work with strings
> except for those two. ALLEGRO_PATHs may not be suitable for some
> filesystems which use a different path syntax.
>
> There is another link between the path and filesystem subsystems which
> may be unintended. al_make_path_absolute depends on the current
> filesystem in effect.
>
Most API's I've played with depend on the "make absolute" function using the
current cwd state. So I don't really think its a problem as is.
That said, I guess it might make more sense to pass the base path into
al_make_path_absolute, or just remove it and say "use al_join_paths"..
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Thomas Fjellstrom
tfjellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx