On Sun, Feb 23, 2020 at 12:52:46PM -0500, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: > On 2/23/20 7:50 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > Le 23/02/2020 à 11:40, Enrico Forestieri a écrit : > >> On Sun, Feb 23, 2020 at 12:35:53AM +0100, Enrico Forestieri wrote: > >>> On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 07:55:13PM +0100, Enrico Forestieri wrote: > >>>> > >>>> Still, why realPath() returns a short path name in one case and not > >>>> in the > >>>> other case remains a mystery. > >>> > >>> Mystery solved. On Windows, our implementation of realPath() works > >>> only with > >>> file names but does not work with directory names. On the other hand, > >>> QFileInfo::canonicalFilePath() does not resolve junctions (directory > >>> symlinks). > >> > >> Dropping support for Windows Xp, the attached patch works for me with > >> both files and directories. I am going to apply it, as I think it is > >> not controversial, given that MS dropped support for Win7 these year > >> (while we still support both WinVista and Win7). > > > > I have no definitive idea about that, but you should update README if > > you apply it. > > I am not totally sure, but I seem to recall that Uwe stopped pledging > support for XP quite some time ago. There was some specific reason, I > think, but I can't recall what it was.
I don,t either, but since 5873a382 it won't even start on Xp and earlier versions. -- Enrico -- lyx-devel mailing list lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-devel
