From: Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>
Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 10:18:49 GMT
Subject: Re: Possibility of a MinGW version?
Message-ID: <20051224101849.GY1279MdfPADPa@greensroom.kotnet.org>
In-Reply-To: <43AD1E63.4040103@op5.se>

On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 11:09:39AM +0100, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> The worst trouble you're likely to run into is all the hardcoded paths. 
> They are everywhere and ofcourse use the / for path entity separation.

AFAIR, '/' is a valid path separator on Windows.
It's just command.com (does that still exist?) that insisted on '\\'
separators.

> The fact that there are 39 bash'ish shell-scripts does little to help a 
> native port, and although they can be fairly easily replaced by "real" 
> programs it still means quite a bit of work with little real value for 
> the unix-version, so I'm guessing you'll have to write those up for 
> yourself.

Or just use MinGW's bash.

skimo