Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 22:01:28 +0200
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> From: "Tim Van Holder" <tim DOT van DOT holder AT pandora DOT be>
> Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 19:21:47 +0100
> 
> I've been looking into (re-)adding clean support for
> DOS-style paths into CVS.

Thank you.

> Would it be acceptable to turn the path I get from the
> user (through $CVSROOT, -d or CVS/Root) into a /dev-style
> path internally (i.e. X:/Foo/Bar -> /dev/X/Foo/Bar)?

You can do whatever you like internally, the issue is only with
external interfaces.

> This would have the side effect that
>  a) Any messages from CVS regarding the root would
>     include the /dev-style path, and
>  b) CVS/Root will contain the /dev-style path for newly
>     made sandboxes.

Printing messages in /dev-style might confuse users.  As for CVS/Root
files, using /dev there means that other versions of CVS will not be
able to use the same CVS tree.

Is it possible to plumb these two holes by calling _fixpath on the
/dev-style filename just before you print a message or write the path
to a file?  Perhaps CVS uses a small number of special functions to do
those chores; if so, you could change only those few functions.