Re: GWorkspace mdextractor problem

[Philippe Roussel]

On 2007-02-14 12:27:25 +0100 Richard Frith-Macdonald 
<richard@tiptree.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> Sorry for not getting back to you ... I modified svn-trunk yesterday  
> to 
> check for the presence of a leading '~' in a path component and  
> refrain from 
> calling rootOf() in that case.

And it works for me, thanks.

> Howerver, I'm not entirely sure what the correct behavior is ...
> I'm fairly sure that we should just ignore (ie don't treat specially) 
>  a '~' 
> on all systems.
> I'm also fairly sure we should just strip leading path separators  
> from the 
> component on all systems.
> However, what to do about a drive: prefix or a //host/share prefix is 
>  less 
> clear ...
> Perhaps we should simply append the string and generate a debug log  
> about 
> non-portable paths on unix,
> and raise an exception if running under windows?

If the append string is supposed to be a relative path, it would 
probably be enough to strip any leading separator from the component, 
any ending separator from the path and the append 
path+separator+component :

Path            Component
//server        home/user       => //server + / + home/user
//server        /home/user      => //server + / + [/]home/user
//server/       /home/user      => //server[/] + / + [/]home/user
/                       /home/user      => [/] + / + /home/user
...

Or am I missing something big here ?

Philippe
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