Re: GWorkspace issues on MinGW

[Nicolas Roard]

On 8/18/06, Enrico Sersale <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 2006-08-18 14:01:02 +0300 Nicolas Roard <address@hidden> wrote:
> > I'm not sure GWorkspace is actually even supposed to work on
> > Windows... it probably expects lots of linuxism.
>
> GWorkspace has *NO* linuxisms; besides linux, it runs on darwin, *BSD, solaris, 
> etc...

I just meant linuxism as in != Windows ...
I should have s/linuxism/unixism :-)

> Here I see a problem in the "C:\DesktopNewFolder" path; there is not the path separator that should 
> be between "C:\Desktop" and "NewFolder".
> Usually I use -stringByAppendingPathComponent: and, in the few cases when I 
> must append a path separator by hand, I use a function that calls 
> NSFileManager's -stringWithFileSystemRepresentation:length:; this should give 
> correct paths also on windows.
> Anyway, not having windows, I can't test anything and it's very probable that 
> gworkspace doesn't run on it, but not due of these basical problems (path 
> handling, etc...).

It's perhaps also a problem with NSFileManager itself when used on
Windows, not specifically GWorkspace.

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