- From: Christian Grün <christian.gruen@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 14:40:21 +0100
- To: John Lumley <john@saxonica.com>
- Cc: EXPath <public-expath@w3.org>, "O'Neil Delpratt" <oneil@saxonica.com>
John, I see; thanks for the swift reply! Christian On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 2:33 PM, John Lumley <john@saxonica.com> wrote: > Christian, > > I'll have a look at the implications, but it won't be until about Feb 10th > or so. I'm not going to be in Prague, but Mike and O'Neil will be, so if > you're there you might be able to discuss with them > > John > > On 28/01/2015 13:28, Christian Grün wrote: > > Hi John, hi O'Neil, > > Would it be possible to rewrite the Saxon test driver such that the > "current working directory" is the directory from which the tests are > started, and not one that is different for a particular EXPath module? > > In particular, this would mean that the sandpit directories would need > to be moved up one directory in the tests. The current structure looks > as follows: > > archive > - sandpit > file > - sandpit > > I would propose the following structure: > > sandpit > - archive > - file > > The reason for this change request is that we didn't anticipate a > programmatic change of the current working directory. The solutions > for this I have found for Java are generally regarded as hacks [1]. > > What do you think? I'd be happy to update the existing tests. > Christian > > [1] > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/840190/changing-the-current-working-directory-in-java > > > > -- > John Lumley MA PhD CEng FIEE > john@saxonica.com > on behalf of Saxonica Ltd
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