Jed and Matt dream of getting rid of the C++ sowing package and using python
I dream of getting rid of the C++ win32fe package and using python We are all unrealistic, sadly. Barry On Sep 30, 2014, at 10:21 PM, Satish Balay <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 30 Sep 2014, Barry Smith wrote: > >> >> On Sep 30, 2014, at 10:10 PM, Satish Balay <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> On Tue, 30 Sep 2014, Barry Smith wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Can config/BuildSystem/client-python/cygwinpath.c be used to get rid of >>>> win32fe? >>> >>> The functionality looks unrelated to win32fe. >> >> Isn’t that what win32fe does, convert unix style paths to win style paths >> that then get passed to the windows compilers? > > win32fe does more than that. > > - converts some gcc type arguments to cl format [for eg: -c, -o] > - marshall arguments to cl [for eg: cl is perticular about certain order in > which the > arguments should be listed] > - similar convertion and marshalling of arguments to 'lib' tool - and make it > useable similar to 'ar' > - And sure - identify and convert (only) PATH type arguments to the windows > notation. > > cygwinpath.c appears to be a python wrapper to cygwin utility "cygpath" > - which helps with path conversions. > > $ cygpath -w /home/balay > C:\cygwin\home\balay > > Satish > >> >> Barry >> >>> >>> Satish >>> >>>> Otherwise it should be tossed since it isn’t used by BuildSystem, right? >> >>
