On 25/01/16 04:40, Carl Sorensen wrote: > > On 1/24/16 3:35 PM, "lilypond-devel-bounces+c_sorensen=byu....@gnu.org on > behalf of Urs Liska" <lilypond-devel-bounces+c_sorensen=byu....@gnu.org on > behalf of u...@openlilylib.org> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> now that is-absolute? is not broken anymore (see #4746 and #4747) I'd >> like to raise the question of its *behaviour* - which seems somewhat >> inconsistent to me. >> >> Currently this function behaves differently on Windows and elsewhere, >> and I think this shouldn't be the case. >> >> is-absolute? expects a string representing a file path. >> It returns true if either >> >> it starts with a slash >> or >> if on Windows it starts with a drive letter. >> >> So >> >> (is-absolute? "/some/path") >> always returns #t >> >> but >> (is-absolute? "C:\some\path") >> or >> (is-absolute? "C:/some/path") >> >> returns #t on Windows but #f on Unix. > It seems to me that "\some\path" is a "sort-of" absolute windows path. It > is an absolute path on the current drive. It's certainly not a relative > path in the normal sense, meaning that we need to add on the current > directory if we want to get to an absolute path. > > Windows has the concept of a drive spec, (C:), unlike linux, which just > has mount points. > > So I'm not sure what the best way to handle it. > > I guess I'm not much help. > > Carl >
Don't forget that Windows has its own set of 'PATH' variable conventions - that may or may not be applicable here - see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environment_variable Under the Windows Section. E.g. the value '%systemroot%' is - I think - the equivalent to '/' in NIX land so you have others like %ProgramFiles% and %APPDATA% etc. That may help with this. James _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
