RE: [cp-patches] RFC: Remove lowercasing of Windows paths

[Roman Kennke]

Am Mittwoch, den 26.10.2005, 15:26 +0200 schrieb Jeroen Frijters:
> Roman Kennke wrote:
> > Ingo found a bug in the Windows path handling. In the PlatformHelper
> > class we lowercase all Windows paths. This is kind of naive and
> > shortsighted, because paths are not only file system paths, 
> > but can also be paths inside JAR files etc, which actually ARE
> > case-sensitive.
> 
> When I last looked at PlatformHelper, it was very broken (on Windows)
> and I recommend not using it at all. IMHO it should be removed from cvs
> and VMFile should be rewritten to delegate these operations to native
> code.
> 
> IKVM replaces VMFile, so for me it's not really important, but it would
> be good for other VMs to have better Windows support.

Ok, I'll commit this now.

2005-11-09  Roman Kennke  <address@hidden>

        Reported by Ingo Proetel  <address@hidden>
        * gnu/java/io/PlatformHelper.java
        (toCanonicalForm): Remove lowercasing of paths in Windows. This
        breaks working with URLs, like when accessing files withing JAR
        files.

/Roman

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