Re: [PATCH 2/5] [mingw]: Have compiled-file-name produce valid names.

[Andy Wingo]

On Fri 20 May 2011 15:47, Jan Nieuwenhuizen <address@hidden> writes:

> Andy Wingo writes:
>
>> I don't much like this approach.  Besides mixing in a heuristic on all
>> machines that is win32-specific, it makes c:/foo.scm collide with
>> d:/foo.scm in the cache, and fails to also modify load.c which also does
>> autocompilation in other contexts.
>
> Yes, a newer version of this patch also includes load.c and boot-9.scm.
> Of course the drive letter should be kept.

I have applied a similar patch to Guile, before realizing you had a
newer version.  Sorry for the huge delay here.

[I said:]
>> Is anyone interested in implementing a path library?

I don't think this would have helped very much in this case, given that
taking an absolute path and turning it into a path suffix is not
something that a path library is really good for.  In reality all we
need is a key that corresponds in a 1-to-1 relationship with a source
file -- a SHA1 hash would have done as well.  But oh well, c:/foo ->
/c/foo it is!

Andy
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