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Re: Poor support for \ on windows from the C API?

From: Branko Čibej <brane_at_xbc.nu>
Date: 2003-11-14 22:58:45 CET

Arild Fines wrote:

>I never really understood why this isn't handled in libsvn_client. Is there
>any scenario in which you *don't* want to perform this
>conversion/canonization? If every client of the API basically needs to
>create it's own infrastructure to do this conversion anyway, wouldn't it be
>better to prevent this redundancy by having libsvn_client handling it?
>
>
We've been through this discussion before. The short answer is "no". To
get the long answer, think about how many different ways there are for
clients to represent paths. Which would we support?

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Brane Čibej   <brane_at_xbc.nu>   http://www.xbc.nu/brane/
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