Re: Proposal: an addition to glib for getting the absolute path of the current binary.

[Enrico Weigelt <weigelt metux de>]

* Mike Hearn <mike navi cx> [2004-04-13 14:01:18 +0100]:

<snip>
> g_get_absolute_path(DATADIR ? DATADIR : "../share/myproject", "/somefile.png");

No good modeling. Better:

    g_cfprobe_dir ( 'mypackage', G_CFPROBE_DATADIR );
    g_cfprobe_dir ( 'mypackage', G_CFPROBE_SYSCONFDIR );
...

or 

    g_cfprobe_rc ( 'mypackage' );


Evrything's hidden behind these functions, which belong into something 
lile libgcfprobe.


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