Re: disregard my FileUtils patch

[Craeg K Strong]

Jeff Tulley wrote:
Now, I'm wondering about some basic functionality here that I might be misunderstanding.  Are resolveFile and normalize supposed to be able to handle 
all three types of file system names, "/usr/bin", "c:\temp", and "sys:/tmp" while executing on any given system, or is 
it ok for "sys:/tmp" to be handled only when executing on NetWare, or "c:\temp" to be handled when executing on Windows, etc?  If 
I need to handle everything on every system, then I'll have to refactor resolveFile and normalize a whole lot more.  The going assumption used to be 
that if it contained a ":" as the second character, that was automatically a windows path.  Things get a little more complicated for 
general support if that colon can move to later in the string and still represent a valid "drive" name.(really, a NetWare volume).
One case you may not have considered is that of emulation environments: 
Under Cygwin in
Windows, one can use UNIX-style file system names.  Cygwin is quite 
popular, but I
am sure there are other such environments (for example, VMware)....

HTH,
--Craeg