>>>>> "Georg" == Georg Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> However, you could also use other native apps apart from miktex, so >> it is useful that both 1) and 2) return either posix- or win-style >> paths. This is to be independent from the cygwin_path_fix switch >> and in my patch it is done through the "Use Cygwin-style paths" >> checkbox. Georg> Not agreed. os::internal_path should always create posix-style Georg> paths. Why would we want other paths internally? Definitely. Georg> If you think about presentation of paths to the user, then I Georg> would rather invent a new function display_path(), otherwise we Georg> mixup things. One could argue what os::external_path should do. external_path could have a second, optional, argument that would be an enum describing what we want to do with the name (LATEX, DEFAULT, whatever). Hmmm, I am not sure it is a good idea actually. Georg> The checkbox does not really solve the fundamental problem: On Georg> cygwin, we don't know which of the external programs needs a Georg> cygwin style path, and which one needs a native windows path. Georg> rather than the checkbox I would like to have a more general Georg> mechanism, for example a wrapper script that is invoked instead Georg> of an external program and that can translate the paths. The Georg> configure script could then write the corresponding entries in Georg> lyxrc.default. For converters, we could use a flag to tell what kind of paths are needed. Of course, if we use "convert" we do not know whether it is a native or a cygwin version (do both exist?). We could also have special forms of $i $o and friends asking for an internal path. JMarc
