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From: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
To: Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org>
Cc: bug-gnulib <bug-gnulib@gnu.org>, Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>,
	guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] [mingw]: Add implementation of canonicalize_file_name.
Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 16:54:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3vcx5v2wc.fsf@unquote.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xomesjs9wk4t.fsf@PC201668.asml.com> (Jan Nieuwenhuizen's message of "Fri, 20 May 2011 15:56:10 +0200")

Hello Jan,

On Fri 20 May 2011 15:56, Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org> writes:

> Andy Wingo writes:
>
>> I read the thread and it looked like this patch was close to being
>> accepted
>
> Yes, it looks like that.

Heh ;)

> My first simplistic patch to just make guile canonicalize_file_name work
> on mingw took my an hour to write and test.
>
> I spent four full working days arguing with gnulib of the necessity of
> the patch, writing tests, writing, talking, rewriting a new patch.
>
> It's my estimate that it will only take two to four working days to get
> this in gnulib.  I'm not planning to do that without sponsoring, sorry.

Understood.  I have copied Bruno and the gnulib list for an update on
what the status of this bug is, and what if anything is needed to fix
canonicalize_path on mingw.

The context:

   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.gnulib.bugs/25451

I would appreciate it if Gnulib folk would have another look at this
one.

Thanks,

Andy
-- 
http://wingolog.org/



  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-20 14:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-15 15:34 mingw runtime patches Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2011-02-15 15:34 ` [PATCH 1/5] [mingw]: Add implementation of canonicalize_file_name Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2011-04-29 16:33   ` Andy Wingo
2011-05-20 13:56     ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2011-05-20 14:54       ` Andy Wingo [this message]
2011-02-15 15:35 ` [PATCH 2/5] [mingw]: Have compiled-file-name produce valid names Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2011-04-29 17:16   ` Andy Wingo
2011-04-29 17:30     ` Noah Lavine
2011-05-01 11:30       ` Andy Wingo
2011-05-01 19:23         ` Noah Lavine
2011-05-01 21:12           ` Andy Wingo
2011-05-01 21:48         ` Mark H Weaver
2011-05-02  7:45           ` Andy Wingo
2011-05-02 20:58         ` Ludovic Courtès
2011-05-02 21:58           ` Andy Wingo
2011-05-02 22:18             ` Ludovic Courtès
2011-05-03  7:44               ` Andy Wingo
2011-05-03  8:38                 ` Ludovic Courtès
2011-05-04  3:59                 ` Mark H Weaver
2011-05-04  4:13                   ` Noah Lavine
2011-05-04  9:24                     ` Ludovic Courtès
2011-05-17 16:59                       ` Noah Lavine
2011-05-17 19:26                         ` Mark H Weaver
2011-05-17 20:03                         ` Mark H Weaver
2011-05-23 19:42                         ` Filenames and other POSIX byte strings as SCM strings without loss Mark H Weaver
2011-07-01 10:51                           ` Andy Wingo
2011-05-23 20:14                         ` Paths as sequences of path components Mark H Weaver
2011-05-24 10:51                           ` Hans Aberg
2011-11-23 22:15                           ` Andy Wingo
2011-11-25  2:51                             ` Mark H Weaver
2011-06-16 22:29                 ` [PATCH 2/5] [mingw]: Have compiled-file-name produce valid names Andy Wingo
2011-05-02 23:16             ` Eli Barzilay
2011-05-20 13:47     ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2011-05-20 14:01       ` Andy Wingo
2011-06-30 14:11       ` Andy Wingo
2011-02-15 15:35 ` [PATCH 3/5] [mingw]: Do not export opendir, readdir etc., as dirents differ Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2011-05-01 11:37   ` Andy Wingo
2011-05-20 13:57     ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2011-06-16 22:22       ` Andy Wingo
2011-02-15 15:35 ` [PATCH 4/5] [mingw]: Delete existing target file before attempting rename Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2011-05-01 11:40   ` Andy Wingo
2011-05-20 14:05     ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2011-06-16 21:45     ` Andy Wingo
2011-02-15 15:35 ` [PATCH 5/5] [mingw]: Use $LOCALAPPDATA as a possible root for cachedir Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2011-05-01 11:42   ` Andy Wingo
2011-05-20 14:03     ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2011-06-16 22:02       ` Andy Wingo

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