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From: James Harkins <jamshark70@gmail.com>
To: Bastien <bzg@altern.org>
Cc: "Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org" <Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: org-mobile-push vs. symlinks
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2013 17:50:43 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFniQ7WVss9rsmDGrbcTv12=FP9XT6zbAhWziiVkoS29YX4urg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878v8abf1e.fsf@bzg.ath.cx>

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On Jan 3, 2013 8:57 PM, "Bastien" <bzg@altern.org> wrote:
>
> Hi James,
>
> James Harkins <jamshark70@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > - One should not put symlinks into org-directory, or at least make
> > sure the symlink's name is the same as the target. If this is an
> > intentional limitation, it should be documented.
> >
> > - Or, the symlink resolution is not actually necessary and it causes
> > problems. In that case, it's a bug that should be fixed.
> >
> > Which is it? :-)
>
> I'd say the first one :)

Hm, I'd suggest a third possibility then:

- There isn't actually a good reason for the restriction and nobody knows
why it's done this way, but it's too much trouble to fix for a corner case
that's easily worked around.

The outcome is the same as the first: document the issue.

hjh

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-04  9:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2012-12-08  3:42       ` org-mobile-push vs. symlinks James Harkins
2012-12-15  8:49         ` James Harkins
2012-12-15  8:57           ` Bastien
2012-12-19 17:57             ` J. David Boyd
2012-12-19 18:09               ` Bastien
2013-01-03 12:10         ` Bastien
2013-01-04  9:50           ` James Harkins [this message]
2013-01-04 15:34             ` Bastien
2013-01-06  9:59               ` James Harkins
2013-01-06 13:57                 ` Bastien
2013-01-07  2:34                   ` James Harkins
2013-01-07  2:42                     ` Bastien
2013-01-07 17:21                     ` Bastien

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