RE: Repost, different list...File::Spec, Cygwin, Syntactic vs. Semantic path analysis

[Elfyn McBratney <elfyn-cygwin at sickpuppy dot co dot uk>]

> Right, so:
> Perl for Cygwin uses "/"
> Perl for win32 uses "\" and ":".
>
> Seems pretty straight forward to me.
>
> Cygwin may be 'just a partial posix layer', but if you are compiling > for it, you should use "/" delimited paths.

And thats just what I meant to end with before hitting that send button. *Slap*

Elfyn
elfyn@exposure.org.uk


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• From: Robert Collins <rbcollins at cygwin dot com>
• To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
• Cc: LA Walsh <law at tlinx dot org>
• Date: 06 Jan 2003 19:36:30 +1100
• Subject: RE: Repost, different list...File::Spec, Cygwin, Syntactic vs.Semantic path analysis
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• References: <20030106083008.4C1334385@sitemail.everyone.net>

On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 19:30, Elfyn McBratney wrote:

> Although the win32 api supports both one takes more work as paths
> containing forward-slashes are converted to back-slashes*. I know this
> is being petty but if different style paths cause problems surely it
> would make sense to follow the standard the OS follows?

Right, so:
Perl for Cygwin uses "/"
Perl for win32 uses "\" and ":".

Seems pretty straight forward to me.

Cygwin may be 'just a partial posix layer', but if you are compiling for
it, you should use "/" delimited paths.

Rob
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