OpenEuphoria

Re: Messy Autoexec.bat

• Posted by Pete Lomax <petelomax at blueyonder.co.uk> Aug 30, 2004
• 417 views

On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 18:08:24 -0700, Derek Parnell
<guest at RapidEuphoria.com> wrote:

>
>Although CoJaBo is correct that this is one way to tidy up
>your autoexec.bat, it still is valid point of discussion
>about the way "include" uses search paths.
>
>For example, I have C:\EUINC folder in which I store 3rd party
>libraries and others that I have written. To organise these, 
>I do have some of these in subfolders. It would be useful to
>be able to tell Euphoria to automatically scan these subfolders
>(but in which order?) without having me manually update
>autoexec.bat (or equivalent) from time to time.

I think the real problem is that the interpreter has no memory of
directories previously visited. So I cannot for example download a new
version of win32lib.ew into C:/editor/w326005 and then include it by
using "include w326005/win32lib.ew" because it will go wrong loading
any of the other 18 or so files used by win32lib.ew.

If, otoh, it maintained a sorted list of the most recent directories
included from and scanned though them in order, then not only would
the above work but your organised c:\euinc would too: you could just
say "include w326005/win32lib.ew" and the interpreter would [also] go
look in %EUINC%\w326005\

If you have duplicate file names (which, technically I guess should
generate a warning) then it is much more likely to load the right one
this way, rather than always searching in the %EUINC% order.

Regards,
Pete