[SAGA-RG] URLs and wildcards

[Andre Merzky]

Quoting [Ceriel Jacobs] (Dec 03 2007):
> >
> > B: why the limitation to relative path names?
> 
> Not really needed, indeed, but conceptually, wildcard expansion operates
> on a directory, and we are talking about methods on directories here.

Sorry for being thick: yes, they operate on a directory, but
how does that imply relative paths?  E.g., the following
calls expand on the contents of a single directory, but
would be impossible with relative paths:

  rm /tmp/*
  cp /tmp/*/*.jpg /home/user/images/tmp/
  


> >> With B, the user can directly pass the wildcard string
> >> to, e.g., copy.  The "trick" is that the string is
> >> restricted in its expressiveness, namely to pathnames
> >> relative to the CWD.
> >
> > For C speaks that '*' is, probably, the most commonly
> > used wildcard - so using that in the standard URL calls
> > would help a lot.  As for the other wildcards, a detour
> > via expand does not sound too bad anymore...
> 
> I can live with C :-) although it is a bit of an ad-hoc
> solution.  I like B a bit better, because it is more
> explicit about which methods accept wildcards.

Good points.

Thanks, Andre.


> Ceriel


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