Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact ant-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 462 invoked from network); 19 Apr 2000 07:45:47 -0000 Received: from smtp01ffm.de.uu.net (192.76.144.150) by locus.apache.org with SMTP; 19 Apr 2000 07:45:47 -0000 Received: from sbodewig.bost.de ([195.127.75.69]) by smtp01ffm.de.uu.net (5.5.5/5.5.5) with ESMTP id JAA21654 for ; Wed, 19 Apr 2000 09:45:45 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from bodewig@localhost) by sbodewig.bost.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA13809; Wed, 19 Apr 2000 09:45:44 +0200 X-Authentication-Warning: sbodewig.bost.de: bodewig set sender to bodewig@bost.de using -f To: ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org Subject: Filenames - somewhat OT References: <013501bfa8d3$3fca1f80$65569e81@ionic> From: Stefan Bodewig Date: 19 Apr 2000 09:45:44 +0200 In-Reply-To: "James Duncan Davidson"'s message of "Mon, 17 Apr 2000 18:11:24 -0700" Message-ID: Lines: 14 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) XEmacs/21.1 (Canyonlands) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Spam-Rating: locus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N The recent discussion whether we need an external canonical form or accept filenames in the platform specific form made me wonder: How are platforms handeled where the simple File.separatorChar concept isn't enough? There is a JDK for OpenVMS. How does this cope with filenames like MYNODE$dka100:[USERS.STEFAN.SRC.JAVA.SOME.PACKAGE]CLASSNAME.JAVA;42 and how should Ant handle that? How about the OS/390 ports and so on? Stefan