Enrico Forestieri wrote: > On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 01:08:58PM +0200, Georg Baum wrote: >> Enrico Forestieri wrote: > [...] >> > The correct way is simply allowing both windows and posix style paths >> > on cygwin, but I think that this has something to do with religion, >> > so I don't think they will ever do the right thing. >> >> Please file a bug nevertheless. They should at least know what other >> people think about it. If enough people do that it might get changed. > > I doubt it. Anyway, I am trying to start a discussion on this matter > on that thread. Let's see how it evolves and what the cygwin developers > think. I already know that they strongly oppose the use of windows style > paths on cygwin, as the colon can be easily misinterpreted by a posix > application, but a share path does not contain any colon...
What I meant was to make the boost filesystem developers aware of this (I think it is their responsibility to produce working code on all supported platforms), but hearing the opinion of the cygwin people can not harm either. > I don't want to introduce ugly code only for the benefit of one platform, > so I don't advocate the patch. But I think that it makes sense to apply > it as a local patch if you specifically build lyx for that platform, > otherwise it may be seen as a lyx bug, as you can see. It is a LyX bug. The fact that it is caused by an underlying library does not matter for a user. I see no reason not to include the patch in the official sources since it has no effect for the other platforms. Georg
