Re: use /, : for dirs, paths on Windows?

[John Darrington]

On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 02:14:52PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
     Currently we use \ and ; for dirs and paths on Windows, because
     that's the local convention.  However, I understand that most GNU
     software uses / and :, even on Windows.  Being uniform would
     allow use to get rid of DIR_SEPARATOR and PATH_SEPARATOR, which
     are kind of ugly.
     
     What do you guys think?

Get rid of them.

Currently the only way of building fro windows is through Cygwin,
which interprets the proper /: posix convention.  \ and ; might be
needed if and when pspp ever gets built natively for windoze.  But I
expect there will be a lot of other problems to overcome and
separators will be just one of them.

J'

-- 
PGP Public key ID: 1024D/2DE827B3 
fingerprint = 8797 A26D 0854 2EAB 0285  A290 8A67 719C 2DE8 27B3
See http://pgp.mit.edu or any PGP keyserver for public key.

pgpnbCgqSYu_w.pgp
Description: PGP signature