Talin wrote: > If this were not true, 'make' could never work across filesystems. You'd > have to have a different makefile for every different filesystem type.
Ever tried to use a Unix makefile on classic MacOS or VMS? It wouldn't work very well at all... Even relative pathnames can have semantic differences that don't translate across systems. For example, in VMS, the pathname of a directory looks quite different from the pathname of a file. You couldn't round-trip that to a Unix pathname and back without losing the distinction. -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
