Re: [cp-patches] Proposed patch: java.io.File

[Michael Koch]

Am Donnerstag, 22. Juli 2004 13:30 schrieb Jeroen Frijters:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to merge in better Windows path support from libgcj (plus
> some extra fixes). This is a rather large (and complicated) patch.
> It removes the dependency on gnu.java.io.PlatformHelper (I would
> like to remove this class completely in the near future). Another
> consequence of this patch is basically that we from now on only
> support Unix and Windows style paths. If anyone has problems with
> that, I will move the platform specific stuff to VMFile.
>
> I also had to introduce a new toCanonicalForm() method in VMFile,
> because this needs native support on Windows.

The changes in VMFile are missing in the patch.

In general I'm for this patch. If it doesn't introduce new mauve 
regressions I would say: please commit.


Michael