Charles Suprin <[email protected]> writes:
> Since no-one else has brought this up, there are portability
> considerations. There are colons in Windows paths. The ever famous
> c:\. Also old versions of Apple products used to use colons as well
> for directory separators. Perhaps the solution is to have the
> XDG_DATA_DIRS and XDG_CONFIG_DIRS stored as the native PATH variable.
> However others probably know better than I.
The obvious solution is to do the same as (all IIRC) other
searchpath-like environment variables, i.e. colon separators on most
platforms, and semicolons on Windows or obscure old Apple systems.
Peter
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Peter Brett <[email protected]>
Remote Sensing Research Group
Surrey Space Centre
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