Re: TAP tests and symlinks on Windows

On Wed, Jul 8, 2020 at 7:18 PM Andrew Dunstan <
andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:

>
> On 7/8/20 12:22 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > On 2020-Jul-08, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> >
> >> On 7/8/20 11:07 AM, Juan José Santamaría Flecha wrote:
> >>> 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
> >> Oh, good find. But unfortunately it's not present in my msys1
> installations.
> >>
> >> So we'll still need to use the 'pwd -W` trick for those.
> > I think his point is not to use that utility, just to use its name as
> > the name of the perl routine.
>
> That would be wholly misleading, since it's not needed at all when we're
> running running under cygwin.
>

MSYS does not include cygpath(), but MSYS2 does. I see why the name could
be confusing outside cygwin, but that is a given and it would point to a
utility that it mimics. Maybe a note for future reference could be enough.

msys_to_windows_path() seems too long, but is hard to misunderstand.

Regards,

Juan José Santamaría Flecha