RE: [Gcl-devel] Re: delayed pathname.d patch

[Mike Thomas]

Hi Michael.

Thanks very much for the work you've been doing and the emails you've
recently sent.  I'm still catching up on my email due to various recent
distractions, hence the delayed reply and the short response, which is also
due to my now being engaged on getting to the bottom of the Windows port
stability problems.

As I'm not sufficiently knowledgable with regard to namestrings/pathnames to
immediately comprehend your suggestion below, I'm going to leave this and
your patches until I can give them the full and detailed attention they
deserve.

The GCL Lisp code (for example "cmpnew/gcl_cmpmain.lsp") generally seems to
neglect pathname device handling which is understandable given that it was
apparently substantially developed on Unix systems (although I do detect
traces of VMS somewhere in the past).

Cheers

Mike Thomas.


| -----Original Message-----
| From: address@hidden
| [mailto:address@hidden
| Behalf Of Michael Koehne
| Sent: Wednesday, 28 April 2004 2:03 AM
| To: Mike Thomas; address@hidden
| Subject: Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: delayed pathname.d patch
|
|
| Moin Mike Thomas,
|
| > Unfortunately not, hence the nature of the patch - in fact host
| on Mingw32
| > is reported as the compiler name rather than the OS - a bit of
| a bummer but
| > a practical result of the hosting of Unix tools under Cygwin. MSYS and
| > others etc.
|
|   btw: my pathname.d does NOT YET detect a DOS system, and therefore
|   not print a device name. My solution to print any information from
|   pathname in a namestring would be.
|
|       (set SI:*NAMESTRING-RESOLVE '(:device :host :version))
|
|   Unix comes NIL as namespace-resolver (later with :host and :version,
|   once SSH and RCS are integrated) - Its therefore trivial to build
|   a DOS version of my patch:
|
|       (set SI:*NAMESTRING-RESOLVE :device)
|       (si:save-system "dos-gcl")
|
|   please try this - i dont have a DOS system at hand - also test
|   something like (directory #p"c:/foo/*.lisp") after installing
|   my patch on Windoof - the directory defun had to change for
|   both systems, but I was only able to test the Unix/BSD side.
|
|   And arange some SURE flag, I could querry from it C as #ifdef WINDOOF to
|   enable this features on M$ platform independed of compile. But we would
|   need to know the output of conf.guess and to patch the two
| files defining
|   M$ to export such a SURE flag. I think a good place might be
| h/gnuwin95.h
|   and in h/mingw.h - similar to the
|
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