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->>> The reason to make it absolute is that relative underlays
->>> are interpreted as relative to the base underlay directory,
->>> not the cwd, by `add_underlay`.
->>>
->>> The updated `ready/transient-only` branch only loads `Cwd` if
->>> the path is relative; an extra commit on branch
->>> `smcv/transient-relative` goes behind `add_underlay`'s
->>> back to allow use of a cwd-relative underlay. Which direction
->>> would you prefer?
->>>
->>> I note in passing that [[plugins/autoindex]] and `IkiWiki::Render`
->>> both need to use `Cwd` and `File::Find` on every refresh, so
->>> there's only any point in avoiding `Cwd` for runs that don't
->>> actually refresh, like simple uses of the CGI. --s
+>>
+>> > The reason to make it absolute is that relative underlays
+>> > are interpreted as relative to the base underlay directory,
+>> > not the cwd, by `add_underlay`.
+>> >
+>> > The updated `ready/transient-only` branch only loads `Cwd` if
+>> > the path is relative; an extra commit on branch
+>> > `smcv/transient-relative` goes behind `add_underlay`'s
+>> > back to allow use of a cwd-relative underlay. Which direction
+>> > would you prefer?
+>> >
+>> > I note in passing that [[plugins/autoindex]] and `IkiWiki::Render`
+>> > both need to use `Cwd` and `File::Find` on every refresh, so
+>> > there's only any point in avoiding `Cwd` for runs that don't
+>> > actually refresh, like simple uses of the CGI. --s
+
+>> >> Oh, right, I'd forgotten about the horrificness of File::Find
+>> >> that required a chdir for security. Ugh. Can we just avoid
+>> >> it for those simple cases then? (demand-calculate wikistatedir)
+>> >> --[[Joey]]
+
+>> >>> The reason that transientdir needs to be absolute is that it's
+>> >>> added as an underlay.
+>> >>>
+>> >>> We could avoid using `Cwd` by taking the extra commit from either
+>> >>> `smcv/transient-relative` or `smcv/transient-relative-api`;
+>> >>> your choice. I'd personally go for the latter.
+>> >>>
+>> >>> According to git grep, [[plugins/po]] already wants to look at
+>> >>> the underlaydirs in its checkconfig hook, so I don't think
+>> >>> delaying calculation of the underlaydir is viable. (I also noticed
+>> >>> a bug,
+>> >>> [[bugs/po:_might_not_add_translated_versions_of_all_underlays]].)
+>> >>>
+>> >>> `underlaydirs` certainly needs to have been calculated by the
+>> >>> time `refresh` hooks finish, so `find_src_files` can use it. --s