Re: [RFC] Paths API (svn_dirent_uri.h) - improvements

Julian Foad wrote:
> Stefan Sperling wrote:
>
>> Yes, but there's no function that deals with the case where you get
>> a Windows path on unix and need to normalise it to internal style.
>>
>> I don't know if dirent_uri should provide that. But I had to cook
>> a custom hack in libsvn_client/patch.c to deal with this case.
>>
>
> Good point: it sounds like it would be useful for the lib to provide
> functions for handling Windows paths even when running on Unix.
>

No wait -- when do you ever have to deal with Windows paths on Unix?
where do they come from? Those are not valid filesystem paths on the OS
where your client is running -- so what's the use case?

-- Brane

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Received on 2009-11-11 17:46:36 CET