Re: TAP tests and symlinks on Windows

From: Juan José Santamaría Flecha <juanjo(dot)santamaria(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari(at)ilmari(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: TAP tests and symlinks on Windows
Date: 2020-07-08 15:07:08
Message-ID: CAC+AXB0ZLi009OT5=EZE4Kwg+Ce_Ri3DMJ+Vpzj+xAe_7aZFfA@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Jul 8, 2020 at 3:54 PM Andrew Dunstan <
andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:

>
> Incidentally, perl2host is arguably a bad name for this routine - there
> is nothing perl-specific about the paths, they are provided by the msys
> environment. Maybe virtual2host or some such would be a better name, or
> even just host_path or native_path.
>

There is a utility cygpath [1] meant for the conversion between Unix and
Windows path formats, that might be a meaningful name also.

[1] http://cygwin.net/cygwin-ug-net/cygpath.html

Regards,

Juan José Santamaría Flecha

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