From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Aberg Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Paths as sequences of path components Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 12:51:46 +0200 Message-ID: <47DCD13B-17F1-454C-B57D-0C63A4EEA15E@telia.com> References: <1297784103-18322-1-git-send-email-janneke-list@xs4all.nl> <1297784103-18322-3-git-send-email-janneke-list@xs4all.nl> <87r58gzuoy.fsf@gnu.org> <87vcxsycds.fsf@gnu.org> <87wri7ru80.fsf@netris.org> <87zkn2stsf.fsf@gnu.org> <8762p1kwdg.fsf_-_@netris.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1084) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1306234342 2693 80.91.229.12 (24 May 2011 10:52:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 10:52:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Andy Wingo , =?iso-8859-1?Q?Ludovic_Court=E8s?= , guile-devel@gnu.org To: Mark H Weaver Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 24 12:52:17 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QOpDl-0001AK-4S for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 May 2011 12:52:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48858 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QOpDk-0007wn-Pz for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 May 2011 06:52:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:42463) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QOpDi-0007wf-A7 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 May 2011 06:52:15 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QOpDh-0003dJ-AN for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 May 2011 06:52:14 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp-out12.han.skanova.net ([195.67.226.212]:57171) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QOpDf-0003cr-FT; Tue, 24 May 2011 06:52:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [10.0.1.2] (217.210.127.13) by smtp-out12.han.skanova.net (8.5.133) (authenticated as u26619196) id 4D65154401A97ECB; Tue, 24 May 2011 12:51:47 +0200 In-Reply-To: <8762p1kwdg.fsf_-_@netris.org> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 195.67.226.212 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:12533 Archived-At: On 23 May 2011, at 22:14, Mark H Weaver wrote: > I really like the basic gist behind Noah's proposal, to allow programs > to optionally represent paths (roughly) as sequences of path = components. > I haven't worked out all the details, and I'm glad to leave that job = to > someone else, but I do have a few comments to add: ... > Should our existing POSIX interfaces which accept pathnames be = extended > to optionally accept these higher-level path objects? it might be a part of POSIX in the future. I mentioned a similar thing = on the standardization list, where it was discussed, and I thin somebody = is working on it. Hans = https://www.opengroup.org/sophocles/show_mail.tpl?CALLER=3Dshow_archive.tp= l&source=3DL&listname=3Daustin-group-l&id=3D13889