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Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 08:24:58 -0400
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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To: Robert Collins <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
CC: Earnie Boyd <Cygwin-Apps AT cygwin DOT com>, Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov AT syntrex DOT com>
Subject: Re: URL paths in setup.exe
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Robert Collins wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Earnie Boyd [mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 9:50 PM
>
> >
> > cygfile:// makes no sense at all on my MinGW platforms.  What
> > mingw are you talking about? cygfile:// to me only makes
> > sense in Cygwin land.
>
> In cygwin land, file:// can access posix paths via the standard C
> library and C++ library calls. In MinGW land how do you access cygwin
> posix paths? Answer: create your own library to read the cygwin mount
> table (which setup has), and then wrap your C++ and C lib calls via that
> (which is what cygfile:// does).
>

Fine, but that's still a Cygwin library and doesn't exist in MinGW land.
I'm making a fuss for search engine sake.  So, please, let's find a
different way to reference it or I'll be getting questions of "Where can I
find the cygfile library?" on my MinGW list.

>
>  >
> > > This means that:
> > > file:///foo/bar.txt is /foo/bar.txt on posix, and Current
> > > drive:\foo\bar.txt on mingw.
> >
> > I don't see that working natively, so it doesn't work on my
> > MinGW, what mingw are you talking about?  I tried both
> > Netscape and IE, they both understand file://c:/temp/foo.txt,
> > though.  However, file:///temp/foo.txt wasn't found.
>
> Ok, well sounds like MS only do absolute paths (which the spec
> requires).
>

And, that is a good thing, IMO.

>
> > >
> > > As for file:// + d: + \foo\bar.txt, can we normalise that as
> > > file://d|/foo/bar.txt - that is what MS do, and will be
> > less confusing
> > > for users of the codebase (IMO).
> >
> > As I've already stated file://c:/foo/bar.txt also works.
>
> Sure. Try file://c|/foo/bar.txt. You'll find that that works too - and
> that is conformant URI syntax, whereas file://c:/foo/bar.txt is not.

I'll agree.

Earnie.