Re: MinGW

[David Bateman]

John W. Eaton wrote:

>On 24-Apr-2006, David Bateman wrote:
>
>| address@hidden wrote:
>| 
>| >Hi David,
>| >
>| >Could I have access to the code that has the fixed "pathsep"?  You 
>mentioned that it is not in the cvs but it was on your computer.
>| >
>| >  
>| >
>| 
>| In fact I don't have anything. There is a variable sepchar in Makeconf,
>| and so also in the octave function octave_config_info as SEPCHAR. In
>| fact I believe a function Fsepchar should be added to the code.
>| Something like
>| 
>|   DEFCONST (sepchar, SEPCHAR_STR,
>|     "-*- texinfo -*-\n\
>| @defvr {Built-in Variable} sepchar\n\
>| The character used to separate directories in the path. The\n\
>| value of this variable is system dependent.\n\
>| @seealso{filesep,dir, ls}\n\
>| @end defvr");
>| 
>| There are several problem functions for sepchar, including path.m,
>| addpath.m and rmpath.m  that hardcodes the ":" as sepchar, while it
>| should use sepchar.
>
>I'm trying to remove DEFCONST/DEFVAR so this should probably be a
>function.
>  
>
Ok, with me, the change to the above is minor

>OTOH, maybe we should convert the internals to use an array of
>character strings instead.  These could be exported to the scripting
>langage as cell arrays of character strings instead.  Then we wouldn't
>need sepchar to deal with Octave's own paths, though we might still
>need it for handling OS PATH variables.
>  
>
This would probably require much more work to convert than just adding a
sepchar function and using it in path, addpath and rmpath.

>Maybe we should move this discussion to the maintainers list?
>  
>
Ok, with me..


D.

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