[M3devel] M3Config

[Dragiša Durić]

I have code reading data structure information from .M3WEB files.... And
that code used M3Config for obvious things... Now when you killed it,
how I am supposed (in portable way) to find these files? :)

TIA,
dd

On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 20:36 +0000, Jay K wrote:
> So..I was wondering..what were the original authors thinking?
>  
> And there was that comment about the file containing the data upon
> install.
> Which seemed wrong to me.
>  
> They were probably thinking of the way 3.6 was packaged and
> distributed -- everyone built the system from source, upon building
> m3build/m3ship from C and m3 from assembly.
>  
> That isn't a bad model, but we probably want both.
>  
> There are at least three times the paths can be computed/recorded:
>   1) when you build libm3 
>   2) when you install libm3 
>   #1 and #2 may or may not be close in time and have the same result.
>   3) by parsing cm3.cfg as needed
>  
> #2 is more efficient than #3 and matches the old code, but #3 is how I
> left it, probably ok.
>  
>  - Jay
> 
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Dragiša Durić <dragisha at m3w.org>