Re: Path separator in NSBrowser on MinGW

[Fred Kiefer]

Hi Richard,

great that you did start to resolve this issue. But I do have problems 
to understand your new code. As far as I see, [NSFileManager 
stringWithFileSystemRepresentation:length:] now replaces a MinGW path of 
the form "c:\path" with "~c/path" which does not look sensible for me. 
What happens is that when the file manager tries to revert the path back 
to a windows path it finds ~ this is handled by [NSString 
stringByStandardizingPath] by replacing it with the home directory.
Why dont we use "//c/path" instead? Or use the NT device name for the 
drive, e.g. //./c/path? (Ok, this would lead to similar problems when 
stringByStandardizingPath eliminates the "/./" part)
Or we add "/cygdrive/" even for mingw, this would save us from inventing 
a private solution.
Currently I am not able even to run the defaults tool on Mingw, so we 
have to urgently find a solution.

Cheers Fred