[revServer] should revdelete work

[Nonsanity]

Perhaps there should be:

delete folder
delete empty folder

 ~ Chris Innanen
 ~ Nonsanity



On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Pierre Sahores <psahores at free.fr> wrote:

> Yes, if really needed but about the unability of "delete folder" and/or
> revdeletefolder, to work against non empty folders, does this need to be
> seen as a bug or as a feature ? My vote would go to the second purposal...
>
> Best,
>
> Pierre
>
> Le 4 mai 2011 à 16:13, Mike Bonner a écrit :
>
> > In this case a (potentially dangerous) shell call is probably the best
> > option.
> >
> > shell("rm -r directoryname")
> >
> > On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 1:49 AM, Matthias Rebbe <runrev260805 at m-r-d.de
> >wrote:
> >
> >> Pierre,
> >>
> >> thanks for your answer.
> >>
> >> delete folder... unfortunately only deletes empty folders. If a folder
> >> contains files or other folders one has to use revdeletefolder. At least
> >> that´s what the dictionary says.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> Matthias
> >> Am 04.05.2011 um 00:05 schrieb Pierre Sahores:
> >>
> >>> Matthias,
> >>>
> >>> I don't use the revdeletefolder command and can't comment on it but :
> >>>
> >>> delete file (thepath)
> >>> delete folder (thepath)
> >>>
> >>> instead, from within my irev libs and it works fine (as long as, in
> case
> >> of file, the file to delete is not the running irev script it self !).
> >>>
> >>> HTH,
> >>>
> >>> Pierre
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Le 3 mai 2011 à 23:20, Matthias Rebbe a écrit :
> >>>
> >>>> Sorry,
> >>>>
> >>>> of course i meant revdeletefolder.
> >>>>
> >>>> Regards,
> >>>>
> >>>> Matthias
> >>>> Am 03.05.2011 um 23:18 schrieb Matthias Rebbe:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Hi,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> i am trying to delete an non empty folder with an .irev script on
> >> on-rev.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> The dictionary says that revdelete is supported under Desktop. Web
> >> (Revlet) and Server. But i get an "Can´t find Handler" error.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Could someone confirm that revdelete does or does not work for
> her/him
> >> under revServer?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Regards,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Matthias
> >>>>
> >>>>
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