Why File#getCanonicalPath()

Johannes Schneider wrote:

It is very, very annoying that I always have to redefine my libs
whenever I update my symlinks (e.g. when updating to the newest EAP).

Hear, hear.

CU,
Edwin

On Mon, 01 Aug 2005 12:13:00 +0200, Johannes Schneider wrote:

why does Idea use the canonical path when I define libs?

It happens elsewhere too :

<http://www.intellij.net/tracker/idea/viewSCR?publicId=51375>

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You can define path variable containing the path to your libraries. Thus all library urls, when saved, will be relative to this
variable.

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Eugene,
Can you explain how this works? I've seen the variables, but I have no idea how to reference them!

Hello Pat,

Eugene,
Can you explain how this works? I've seen the variables, but I have no
idea how to reference them!

You don't have to reference them. When project is saved, all actual paths
are converted into appropriate variables according to configured mappings
in Settings | Path Variables, when project is loaded variables are converted
back to actual locations.

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Ah ha! I see -- not exactly the most intuitive thing, but very helpful. I wish it could also work for things like VM params and working paths when running a program in the project.