Re: NSURL initWithString: does not match apple's behaviour

[David Chisnall]

On 22 Jun 2010, at 17:16, Thomas Davie wrote:

> Just created a bug for this one, but unfortunately no patch, didn't want to 
> dig into it until a decision is made on the required behaviour.
> 
> Apple's behaviour seems to disagree with the documented one here, file paths 
> don't conform to the URL schemes described in the documentation.
> 
> What's the best plan of attack here?

Ideally, create a test case for the test suite documenting the behaviour that 
Cocoa produces, then modify GNUstep to create the same behaviour.  In this 
specific case, remember that GNUstep needs to work on Windows too, so must be 
able to correctly handle DOS-style paths as well as UNIX-style paths.

David

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