John Cowan wrote:
Brandon J. Van Every scripsit:
The platform specific behavior is in library.scm, buried as a primitive:
(define ##sys#pathname-directory-separator
(let ([st (software-type)])
(if (and (eq? 'windows st) (not (eq? (build-platform) 'cygwin)))
#\\
#\/) ) )
This is wrong for a URL. I haven't exactly figured it out, but it
appears that make-pathname is being used for URL construction, which
ultimately ends up with system-specific behavior when it shouldn't.
IMHO the Right Thing is to use "/" as the pathname directory separator
in all circumstances. The Windows kernel has accepted both "/" and "\"
as separators since the dark days of DOS 2.0. It's true that standard
command-line utilities use "/" for options, and the Open File dialogue
box rejects "/" altogether, but when you pass a pathname to a system
call, having a "/" in it is perfectly okay -- I do it all the time when
running Java programs, since Java has no Cygwin build.
I'm not inclined to agree, since I believe I've fixed a fair number of
bugs where reversing pathname polarity was in fact required. What
clearly should happen, however, is URLs should be formed with forward
slashes.
Cheers,
Brandon Van Every
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