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Re: use /, : for dirs, paths on Windows?
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Ben Pfaff |
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Re: use /, : for dirs, paths on Windows? |
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Sun, 16 Apr 2006 18:38:07 -0700 |
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John Darrington <address@hidden> writes:
> 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.
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> What do you guys think?
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> Get rid of them.
Done.
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