Re: [PATCH 2/5] [mingw]: Have compiled-file-name produce valid names.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Andy Wingo <address@hidden> writes:

> Basically I think the plan should be to add scm_from_locale_path,
> scm_from_raw_path, etc to filesys.[ch], and change any
> pathname-accepting procedure in Guile to accept path objects, producing
> them from strings when given strings, and pass the bytevector
> representation to the raw o/s procedures like `open' et al.

Seems to like a disjoint type “just for Windows” would be overkill, no?

MIT/GNU Scheme has something this overkill [0].

Bigloo has just one variable, ‘file-separator’, which is either #\/ or
#\\ [1].  Vicinities in SLIB/SCM are similar, with ‘vicinity:suffix?’
abstracting over slash vs. backslash [2].  I’m not sure how they handle
MS-DOS volume names.

Thanks,
Ludo’.

[0] 
http://www.gnu.org/software/mit-scheme/documentation/mit-scheme-ref/Pathnames.html
[1] 
http://www-sop.inria.fr/mimosa/fp/Bigloo/doc/bigloo-7.html#System-Programming
[2] http://people.csail.mit.edu/jaffer/slib_2.html