From 0c7545c1ceb96dce7e4ace1718dcb3077f877135 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Graydon Hoare <graydon@mozilla.com>
Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 19:43:12 -0700
Subject: Switch win32 path_sep to '/', add comment explaining a bit.

---
 src/lib/win32_fs.rs | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'src/lib')

diff --git a/src/lib/win32_fs.rs b/src/lib/win32_fs.rs
index f88d7798..8ad1f1ef 100644
--- a/src/lib/win32_fs.rs
+++ b/src/lib/win32_fs.rs
@@ -7,7 +7,13 @@ impure fn list_dir(str path) -> vec[str] {
   ret rustrt.rust_list_files(path+"*");
 }
 
-const char path_sep = '\\';
+/* FIXME: win32 path handling actually accepts '/' or '\' and has subtly
+ * different semantics for each. Since we build on mingw, we are usually
+ * dealing with /-separated paths. But the whole interface to splitting and
+ * joining pathnames needs a bit more abstraction on win32. Possibly a vec or
+ * tag type.
+ */
+const char path_sep = '/';
 
 // Local Variables:
 // mode: rust;
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