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Cannot generate CProject without deleting source directory contents? #68
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The client is used to the current interface and does not require any change. Pleaes document the system as it is rather than as you would like it to be |
@petermr wrote:
Straw man 😞 This is a
That is not how bug reports or feature requests work 😉 |
This issue report is based on using this JAR.
Suppose I have a source directory with some input PDFs:
and I want to generate a CProject called "output" from that source directory, to end up with:
I would expect the following command to achieve it:
However, this instead gives:
The deletion of the source directory's contents certainly violates the principle of least surprise.
According to a conversation I had with @petermr just now, this is a known issue. His workaround, which feels cumbersome to me, is to
cp -a
the source directory to the target directory, and then to invokenorma
on the target directory alone:The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: