Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] add pathname-expand

[Felix Winkelmann]

From: Mario Domenech Goulart <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] add pathname-expand
Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2013 22:50:47 +0000

> Hi Felix and all,
> 
> Sorry for taking so long to handle this issue.  To be honest I'm a bit
> lost at it (see comments and questions below).
> 
> `pathname-expand' looks quite simple at the first sight, but it turns
> into a can of worms when some corner cases come into play.

Well, if it is such a can of worms, then perhaps it's not such a great
thing to have, after all. There are so many special cases and platform
dependencies, that it actually confuses more than it helps.


felix