Re: Bug in builtin function abspath

[Paul D. Smith]

%% Boris Kolpackov <address@hidden> writes:

  >> I've written a patch to handle drive letters. If anybody has a better
  >> solution, please let me know.

  bk> I am of a strong opinion that such patches should be kept outside of
  bk> the main tree. However I know that Paul disagrees with this position.
  bk> So I guess it would be his call.

Not sure what "outside of the main tree" means.  We have definitely
committed to supporting these architectures "out of the box", so having
for example to apply some 3rd party patches or whatever to get Windows
support is not going to work.

However, I AM interested in having the non-POSIX behaviors move as much
as possible outside of the "main" source files and into their own,
separate files.

In that vein, I'd urge the implementation of the abspath function to be
moved into a w32 source file and invoked from there, if at all possible.

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