testbzr fails on windows with bad line endings.

[John A Meinel]

Michael Ellerman wrote:

>On Wed, 25 May 2005 15:50, John A Meinel wrote:
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>>Since windows supports it, I think we should use '/' as the path separator.
>>It just unifies platforms.
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>Does it? Cool, chalk one up for UNIX ;D
>
>Python has os.path.sep and os.path.join and so on which in theory mean you can
>be completely path seperator agnostic, but if you can use '/' internally then
>that'd probably be easier. What about drive letters? You'd also have to be
>careful you always convert to the native path encoding before talking to the
>outside world.
>
>cheers
>
>
Well, I think we do need to be careful when talking with the outside
world, but I certainly think that all paths that are stored inside of
the XML files, etc should be use '/' as the path separator.

If you supply the '/' inside of your application to something like
'fopen' it will work fine. You have trouble if you do it on the command
line, since some programs parse '/' as an option rather than part of the
filename. So writing 'dir c:/temp' makes dir think you are passing the
/temp flag(s). But "notepad c:/test.txt" works just fine.

I personally hate using '\' as a path separator, and since windows
doesn't require it, I avoid it when possible. Some people feel that
isn't playing nice, so if we decide to, we can make bzr output '\'.

John
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