Re: Relative alternates question

Jan Hudec [off-list ref] writes:

And my question is, is there any good reason to reject relative paths in
alternates of an alternate? From what I see the recursive call to
link_alt_odb_entries (via link_alt_odb_entry and read_info_alternates) has
all the information it needs to resolve such paths.

As long as you are careful not to introduce loops that cause the
rest of the code to add the same thing twice, I do not think
there is anything fundamentally wrong with relative alternate
paths.  The original motivation of that check was not much more
than "let's not complicate our lives by supporting it", I think.