Re: Windows patches for the next release

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Paul Smith <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
> Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2013 13:37:36 -0400
> 
> On Tue, 2013-10-01 at 19:52 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Btw, Paul: I see that the sources don't consistently use STOP_SET
> > where characters are tested for being directory separators; sometimes
> > they actually test for both slashes and backslashes.  Should we fix
> > that throughout the sources?
> 
> STOP_SET() is basically a performance improvement.  It would be fine to
> use it in more places, but I don't want to change things at this point
> unless we are very confident they won't introduce any brown paper bag
> bugs for the 4.0 release :-).  So if you're confident, go ahead.
> 
> Otherwise we can wait for a followup release.

I'm confident, but it's not important enough to have even a small
risk at this point.