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

[Robert Collins]

On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 11:18 +1000, Matthew Hannigan wrote:

> By '\\' are you including \ ?   I think os.sep should be allowed
> in user input.  I suspect you mean this too, just want to be clear.
> I wouldn't expect win users to type in c:\\Some Where\\Over The Rainbow
> (if in fact they actually type in full pathnames anywhere)

I was using the syntax you would type the string in in the source code.

In cmd.exe you would type '"C:\Some Where\Over The Rainbow"'.

> Yes, I think that using / is output everywhere would be nice.
> It's what SVN does, for what it's worth. (A lot imho)
> 
> The upshot of the two above would result in being able
> to copy and paste bzr output to (some other) bzr input,
> which is a nice user-friendly feature.

Well, I think '/' in output is bad for windows, but accepting '\\'
allows output to be copied to input anyway, so, no biggie.

Rob

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