Re: Installation on windows (fwd)

[Jeremy Bettis]

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From: "Richard Frith-Macdonald" <address@hidden>
To: "Jeremy Bettis" <address@hidden>
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Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 2:49 PM
Subject: Re: Installation on windows (fwd)
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> Oops ... I got it wrong ... GNUstep *will* do that on mingw.  It always 
> uses
> '/' for building paths,
> but will accept '\\' when parsing them on mingw.
> I'm not at all sure that is *good* behavior though ... why do you 'wish
> gnustep worked the same way' ?
> Given that it apparently does work the same way,  I guess your desire is
> theoretical rather than practical as you can't have had any problems with 
> it
> not doing that.

I have had a handful of problems with path handling, but you are correct, my 
expressed desire is theoretical rather than pratical.  Primarially because I 
am willing to make my own changes to gnustep to accomplish my goals. 
(patches always available at deadbeef.com)  And while I hope that I can 
eventually merge to an official release of gnustep, that is not my biggest 
concern. There was a strange bug somewhere, I forget where exactly, where 
some method was doing something funky with colons, and destroying paths that 
started with c:\.

I believe that minimal path munging is good, because I think that my concept 
of "user" is different than yours.  My point of view is that the standard 
user is a rank windows newbie just trying to use a windows application which 
happens to depend on gnustep.  Your point of view is that the standard user 
is a unix developer who is porting their gnustep code to windows or 
something like that.  Clearly I am not inside your head, so this is a guess 
on my part.