Re: Installation on windows (fwd)

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

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On 2005-03-16 13:11:18 +0000 David Ayers <address@hidden> wrote:

> Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
>
> > While my feeling is that the two approaches are fairly evenly balanced
> > (leaving aside distributed systems, and the fact that we have one system
> > already working in the libraries, and consideration for the existing
> > application codebase), I'd like to hear what other people think about the
> > general prionciples.
>
> FWIW, I believe that the "behind the back" handling (read: implicit 
> conversions) of "\\" to "/" and allowing mixed representations which 
> OPENSTEP 
> for NT has (at least partially), caused us more pain than relief.  But this 
> seem like an issue that cygwin and mingw must have also dealt with a lot 
> and 
> maybe we could get some input from there.
>
> If I were to start from scratch I'd probably use the standard POSIX-like 
> representation when dealing with paths yet have some helper 
> methods/functions 
> to explicitly convert NSStrings from/to specific alternative 
> representations 
> to deal with environment variables and such.
>
> I think that supporting distributed systems (which happen not to be 
> discussed 
> here very much for varying reasons) are a very important factor for GNUstep 
> in general and we should insure that can consistently handle such issues.

Thanks for the input ... but I'm not sure I understand you clearly ...

The paragraph 'If I were to start from scratch' sounds like the current
GNUstep code (though the current helper methods are to/from 'native' rather
than 'specific' formats) ... but the first paragraph talking about implicit
conversions could be taken to refer to the current conversion to/from native
format used to make windows system calls.  Perhaps though, you mean the sort
of implicit conversion cygwin/msys/mingw systems have done or do with
environment variables and program arguments?

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