Re: [Chicken-users] file-exists? on Windows

[Mario Domenech Goulart]

On Mon, 14 May 2007 14:58:26 -0400 "Graham Fawcett" <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 5/14/07, Kon Lovett <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On May 14, 2007, at 11:28 AM, John Cowan wrote:
> > > Ah.  No.  The Win32 kernel does *not* ignore trailing backslashes the
> > > way the Unix kernel ignores trailing slashes -- instead, it returns
> > > file-not-found errors.
> > This comes down to a question of platform abstraction. Which I
> > suspect is the unspoken point of Mario's. We do need to remember that
> > whatever their compatibility layers/modes Win32 & MacOS X are not
> > unix. But Chicken does seem to have a bent for providing a common
> > filesystem view so '(file-exists? ".\\")' probably should work on
> > Windows, with a little help from special case handling.
> 
> #<<EOF
> Insert fuzzy, incomplete thought here, about how we could use a system
> for cooperatively defining unit tests against Chicken and extension
> modules, to turn up and help resolve issues like these. (It should be
> as easy to define a test as it is to edit a Wiki page, and at least
> twice as fun.)

If I remember (and understand) correctly, Alejandro has some ideas
about extending svnwiki to provide a wiki interface for test-cases
submission.

Best wishes,
Mario