Bug#210243: ITP: xspringies -- Interactive 2D mass/spring simulation system for X
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 03:21:30PM +0100, Steve Kemp wrote:
> #ifndef COMPRESS
> -#define COMPRESS "gzip"
> -#define UNCOMPRESS "gunzip -c"
> +#define COMPRESS "/bin/gzip"
> +#define UNCOMPRESS "/bin/gunzip -c"
> #endif
I've never been a proponent of hardcoding paths to programs. This will
immediately make the program non-portable to basically any non-GNU type
system, and doesn't provide any significant benefit (/bin is in PATH).
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- mdz
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