On Sun, Jul 23, 2006 at 07:58:50PM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > Enrico Forestieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | > Is '/foo/bar' an absolute path? On posix the answer is 'Yes!', on > | > windows it is 'No!Ã', on cygwin it is 'Depends!' > | > | On cygwin it is 'Yes!', too. > > Is it? Only if you are conscious about staying withing the cygwin > framework I guess. (ad. root of filesystem goes). > > I guess you are right if you thing of cygwin as a separate platform > and not a variant of windows.
Exactly. On windows, c:/xxx and d:/xxx are both absolute paths. On cygwin, /xxx is also an absolute path. > | > Which of course makes it very hard to write applications that both > | > tries to play nice with native windows (Not only play nice with, but > | > also 'be a native application') and at the same time be a cygwin > application. > | > | Then you are saying that my version of LyX (doing exactly that) does > | not exist? > > No. I am only saying it is hard. It may be hard *porting* an application, it is quite simple writing it that way from the beginning (or maintaining an already ported application, which I am trying to do). -- Enrico
