Bug in builtin function abspath (again)

[Andreas Büning]

Hello!

In July 2005 I sent an email to this list because the new builtin
function abspath does not support drive letters. I also sent a patch
to fix this. The last information I got about this issue was the
following email (24th of July, 2005) by Paul Smith stating that he
wanted to find a different solution:


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%% 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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Has anything been done to fix this issue? At least, it doesn't work for
me in 3.81.


Regards,
Andreas Büning