Comment 9 for bug 507973
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| xrg (xrg) wrote Re: [Bug 507973] Re: [trunk] [rev 1975] startup option --addons-path can't handle more than one addons path | #9 |
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On Monday 18 January 2010, you wrote:
> >
> > pathsep has to do with directories notation, doesn't it?
>
> That's what one would think yeah, but it's not the case. The directory
> separator is os.path.sep, os.path.pathsep is the $PATH separator, and is
> defined in the various platform-specific *path.py files:
>
Now that I think of it, it would be a genuinely bad idea to have a system-
specific delimiter, instead of a global (for all installations of OpenERP).
If we just admit that we wouldn't install OpenERP in a strange path
(containing spaces, commas or else), we can reserve those characters for our
addons list delimiter.