[GRASS-dev] Windows-style Pathnames

[Paul Kelly]

On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, Hamish wrote:

> Paul Kelly wrote:
>> Yes. The way I've done that in the is first to pass the string
>> containing  the path to G_convert_dirseps_to_host(), which will
>> replace all occurences  of / by \, and then quote the path name with
>> \"escaped double quotes\"  within the argument supplied to system() -
>> I think this should cover both  eventualities of the pathname
>> containing spaces, *and* the backslashes  possibly being
>> misinterpreted by a shell. Although as we've seen it should  normally
>> by cmd.exe invoked for this.
>
> does it check/strip existing " before adding new ones?

The function doesn't add " characters - they were just added in the 
argument passed to the system() function. I wouldn't expect any filename 
strings being passed around to already contain " characters?

> Glynn:
>>> So, if we were to add ".sh" extensions to all of the scripts, and
>>> add ".sh" to PATHEXT, calling e.g. system("r.out.gdal ...") should
>>> run r.out.gdal.sh using the program associated with ".sh" in the
>>> registry.
>
> I hope this is done in the windows build process (like "gcc -o
> ${module}.exe", and not for all platforms. i.e. "g.script" works from
> the command line on all platforms without having to type ".sh" in unix.

Yes it would just be Windows-specific like .exe is already added to 
executable modules in Windows. Shouldn't be hard to do at all and then we 
just need to provide instructions to people on how to set up the file 
association, or maybe that can be done some scriptable way?