[Pythonmac-SIG] Mach-O MacPython IDE!!!

[Donovan Preston]

On Thursday, December 20, 2001, at 08:46 PM, Tony Lownds wrote:

> Donovan wrote:
>> I suppose the problems with slash delimited paths could therefore be 
>> solved by changing the FSSpec_New code to first create an FSRef and 
>> then convert it to an FSSpec.
>>
>
> How would FSSpec_New know if you are passing a unix path or a mac path? 
> The API for those two is different. And all possible unix paths are 
> possible mac paths; on the mac / is legal in filenames and : is the 
> path delimiter, and on unix vice versa. So guessing that "/hello/world" 
> is a unix path would be hasty.

Hmm. Well, I suppose the only way to get around this is to explicitly 
state which type of path is being used as Jack suggested, or to always 
assume slash-delimited paths on X and colon-delimited paths on 9.

Since os.path.join creates slash-delimited strings on X, all of the 
places in the IDE where there is code that looks like 
os.path.join(rootdir, 'my:subdir:etc') are going to have to be replaced 
anyway. I suggest replacing them with os.path.join(*[rootdir, 'my', 
'subdir', 'etc']) which works no matter what OS you are running under. 
Then, assuming all paths on X are slash delimited, we can insert the 
code to convert from a slash-delimited string to a colon-delimited 
string in FSSpec_New only if MacPython is being compiled as Mach-O.

Maybe I'll get around to doing it and submitting a patch.

Donovan