[cheesecake-users] path switch

[Grig Gheorghiu]

On 6/7/06, Grig Gheorghiu <grig.gheorghiu at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 6/7/06, will guaraldi <willg at bluesock.org> wrote:
>
> >
> > I get this when I try the --path switch:
> >
> > $ ./cheesecake_index --path=./pyblosxom/
> > ./pyblosxom/ is not a valid file ... exiting
> > CHEESECAKE INDEX ........................   0
> >
> > I get the same text whether it's a relative or full path.
> >
> > What is --path supposed to point to?  I thought it would point to a path
> > where the package was, but judging by the brief error text, it seems
> > that
> > it's really looking for a .tar.gz file or something along those lines.
> >
> > If that's the case and other people also see this as a problem, then
> > either the --help text needs more clarification or possibly the word
> > "path" should get changed to something different.
> >
> > /will
>
>
> Hi, Will
>
> You're right, the --path option should be called something else, because
> in reality it's expecting the full path to the package, including the file
> name. So you need to give it the full path to your tar.gz file. Maybe
> --file would be a better option.
>
> Grig
>
>
Another thing I discussed with Michal was to simply not specify any switch
for the package to be inspected. You can give it either a file name, or a
URL, or simply a name, and it will try the file system, then the URL, then
the name download via setuptools.

Would that make more sense?

Grig
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