Re: Proposed nsIFile and nsILocalFile Changes - MUST READ

[Daniel Veditz]

Doug Turner wrote:
> 
> > I think this will improve i18n file name handling a lot. Problem is, the
> > way the unicode->file sys char set conversions are done now requires uconv
> > and is undefined when XPCOM_STANDALONE=1. What can we do about the standalone
> > case if it's all unicode, all the time?
> 
> Your right.  We can't support XPCOM_STANDALONE if we change the nsIFile interface
> to exclusively use the unicode calls.

Put the "native path" interfaces on nsILocalFile.  This cleans up nsIFile,
while allowing access to the real deal in those cases where it's necessary.

-Dan Veditz