Re: [Chicken-users] pathname-normalize

[Thomas Chust]

On Mon, 1 May 2006, Reed Sheridan wrote:

> [...] Also, the implementation of absolute-path? has a bug.  It returns 
> #t for a pathname starting with windows-style drive letters, but in 
> Unix, A:/foo is a perfectly valid relative pathname.  I'm not sure how 
> to conditionalize Chicken code for Windows, or I'd fix this. [...]

Hello,

conditionalizing the code is possible using checks on the return values of 
(software-type) and (build-platform). Something like this should work:

   (define-macro windows-or-unix
     (case (software-type)
       ((windows)
        (project 0))
       ((unix)
        (project 1))))

Generally I wonder, though, why the pathname procedures aren't 
implemented in C. Especially on POSIX platforms where functions like 
realpath are part of the standard C library this would probably be 
more efficient.

cu,
Thomas