Slash and backslasth (was: bzr-0.1-rc1: selftest bug)

[Wouter van Heyst]

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> > I'm not advocating that we depend on cygwin, just that I'm already going
> > to be there, because cmd.exe is a really limited shell (poor grep, find,
> > etc)
> 
> I think that would be a logical split for most people: use / under
> cygwin, and \ otherwise. But in your case it sounds like you would
> prefer / even in native mode. That seems odd to me, but if it's a common
> case then some kind of option would probably be the answer.

I'm not a heavy windows user, for what I do / works perfectly.
Alexander is right about dir not understanding paths with / as seperator
though, so I'm afraid using \ is the least of two evils.

Wouter van Heyst