On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Tom Goodale wrote:
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Andre Merzky wrote:
Hmm, maybe I misunderstood the question. Opening (or constructing) a dir should have a uri as parameter, which is the initial pwd. (BTW: adding the constructors is on my TODO list I think - thanks for the remonder ;-)
But what is about this case:
dir d ("http://www.host.net/home/andre");
d.copy ("http://www.host.net/home/andre/test.dat", "./test.dat");
What is the target of the copy call relative to? As terry said, even more difficult for the relative remote case.
It should be relative to the pwd of d, in the same way as when I do
cd /home/andre
cp /home/andre/test.dat ./test.dat
(which would of course give an error as they are the same file); target is relative to the current working directory.
Of course that then begs the question of how to copy a local file to a remote file or a remote file to a local file easily. I guess one way would be to use a file:// URI for that. However if we have a directory object, it should have the same semantics as the current working directory for a process. Tom