[GRASS-dev] Windows-style Pathnames

[Huidae Cho]

On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 09:58:16AM +0000, Paul Kelly wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Nov 2006, Glynn Clements wrote:
> 
> >Note that the backslash is a shell metacharacter, so it will have to
> >be protected from interpretation if it appears directly in a script or
> >user input.
> 
> For that reason alone, perhaps easiest to use c:/grass/grassdata format as much 
> as possible, at least as an interim measure?
> 
> >The biggest problem with scripts is when MSys decides to be "clever"
> >and do automatic translation. IMHO, we would be better off using host
> >syntax throughout.
> 
> OK but whether we use c:/ or c:\ we still have the same problem with setting 
> the PATH in scripts Huidae was talking about. But it remains to be seen how big 
> a problem it is I guess.
> 
> >So far as I'm concerned, the "Windows" version
> >should be just that, and not an "MSys" version. If people can live
> >without the contents of the scripts directory, it shouldn't be
> >necessary for end users to even have MSys.
> 
> Yes. I thought that but wasn't sure. So Msys and MinGW are needed only for 
> compilation? And it should be possible for a user to run the scripts if 
> necessary using another shell, not necessarily the Msys one? Perhaps determined 
> by a GRASS_SH environment variable. And it's the shell's responsibility to make 
> sure that the various Unix commands work OK when called from within its 
> environment then. Am I making sense?

Then, can we safely assume that either c:/ or c:\ works well with ANY
shell implementation?

Huidae

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