Resource manager in Centaur 1.2

[Jean-Pierre.Jacquot@loria.fr (Jean-Pierre JACQUOT)]

I have been struggling with the resource databases a whole day, and I
have not been able to find a satisfactory solution to our problem.

 The problem: we want to share the development of a formalism among
several people. What we would like to have is a file hierarchy
independant from both users and centaur/contrib (we are using
formalisms located there) hierarchies. 

 The possibility to give absolute locations in the ressource database
seems a solution to our problem. Unfortunately, it does not seem to
work properly. I have encountered two difficulties:
  1- The Database rmo does not allow to specify an absolute path (only
pathes relative to app-root and user-root). It is then impossible to
distribute the data-base accross the file system as is adviced.
  2- Modules are not compatible with absolute locations: readdefmodule
is unable to find the module specified by, for instance:
    *F.std.Root: abs
    *F.std.Location: /<absolute path>
    *F.std.Mode: interp
The same problem arises with the Env specification.
To use absolute locations, I must use the 'compat Mode. This
constraint is not documented.

 Is there a solution to our problem? Or is it simply impossible?

Note: The current solution uses pathes relative to the group of
developpers. This is a pis-aller since people from other groups cannot
use the formalism.

               Jean-Pierre Jacquot


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