Re: [BUG] No way to escape SEPCHAR in split_external_path
"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen(a)xemacs.org> writes:
I don't know if this is actually a bug or not, but apparently
there is
no way to escape the path separator character (typically ?/ on Unix,
?\\ on Windows) in split_external_path. This means that if for some
reason one wanted to put something like packages in a directory named
something like "xemacs:stuff", that would get split into two
directories of a search path in many contexts such as "./configure
--with-late-packages=xemacs:stuff".
Any thoughts, Mike?
I always thought this was a general issue with this notation for paths
on Unix and Windows. Does the PATH environment variable, for instance,
allow escaping? Anyway, this has, to my knowledge, never arisen in
practice. Is it worth complicating the code for?
--
Cheers =8-} Mike
Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla
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