Re: [Tracker] Proposed patch: use '~' in the config file

[jamie <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 00:43 +0100, lbell wrote:
> This is a proposed patch to convert paths beginning with ~ character to the real home dir path, so you can 
> write ~/Documents instead of /home/MyUser/Documents in the configuration file.
> I used a brute force check with '~' character (maybe not so portable) and modified the original data while 
> loading.
>
> Regards
>
> Luca Bellonda

thanks but would it not be simpler to use the posix realpath? (man
realpath for info)

I am not sure if it converts "~" for us as well as allowing relative
paths?

feel free to resubmit patch using realpath if it does. If not can you
also include realpath anyhow


jamie.