On Feb 10, 2010, at 12:22 PM, Ben Webb wrote:
> On 02/10/2010 11:58 AM, Daniel Russel wrote:
>> Indeed, that is what it should be (and is done in other similar
>> files, eg the XCode xml config file). If they are, then we don't have
>> a problem since the script can use the get_example_path to find the
>> xml file and all the data files will be in the same dir as the xml
>> file. The context for finding data files in the xml file is the xml
>> file, not whatever directory the user happens to call things from.
>
> That pronouncement makes it sound like such behavior is some kind of standard, which it of course is not,
I would say it is standard behavior in well designed software, but not some kind of standard :-)