Subject: RE: Repost, different list...File::Spec, Cygwin, Syntactic vs. Semantic path analysis
From: Robert Collins <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Cc: LA Walsh <[email-masked]>
Date: 06 Jan 2003 19:36:30 +1100

On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 19:30, Elfyn McBratney wrote:

> Although the win32 api supports both one takes more work as paths
> containing forward-slashes are converted to back-slashes*. I know this
> is being petty but if different style paths cause problems surely it
> would make sense to follow the standard the OS follows?

Right, so:
Perl for Cygwin uses "/"
Perl for win32 uses "\" and ":".

Seems pretty straight forward to me.

Cygwin may be 'just a partial posix layer', but if you are compiling for
it, you should use "/" delimited paths.

Rob
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