Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: < > Alternative A) < > Leave the xfig file where it is and force all converters to < > understand a '-d' flag for the output directory. < < Nope. Bad idea for all sorts of reasons. The main one being that you < are using the directory in which your important files are as a temp < directory in which you process these files. We have an extremely < powerful and successful mechanism to avoid this and it WORKS.
I might have not said explicitly, but the converters would be allowed to _only_ write into the '-d' directory. If some program like latex is to dumb to do this, a wrapper has to copy the original and all needed files to this directory. Hm, I think my proposal just boils down to putting the working mechanism into the converter scripts. Now you will be telling me why _that_ is not feasible ;-) /Andreas
