bzr-0.1-rc1: selftest bug (windows specific): problem with os.sep

Alexander Belchenko bialix at ukr.net
Tue Oct 25 19:03:44 BST 2005


Wouter van Heyst wrote:
  > I prefer '/' in user output as well, but that might confuse Windows
> users (even though paths with / work fine on Windows)?

paths with '/' works on Windows only for those tools that care about 
this form. Most of shell command like dir, copy, rename does not handle 
'/' in their command line and raise error, because on Windows '/' is 
option separator like '-' on posix.

So, I disagree with using '/' in output.

Alexander





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