Re: Path separator in NSBrowser on MinGW

[Alexander Malmberg]

> > [snip]
> >> There may be another way to achieve the same OS independence. We could
> >> define that all file and path names inside of GNUstep libraries and
> >> applications should be in the UNIX style and only convert the names to
> >> the OS specific form, when we actually need to access a file.
> >
> > Isn't this how it's supposed to work? I always thought so, and the docs
> > seem to imply it, eg.:
> 
> Yes ... but looking at the NSFileManager method, it seems it was never
> ported to windoze, though the counterpart
> fileSystemRepresentationWithPath:
> method was!

But you agree that this is an NSFileManager issue, and not an NSBrowser
or application issue? I do _not_ want to bother with portable path
handling in my apps.

- Alexander Malmberg