Hi, On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 13:42, Dr. Torsten Rupp wrote: > My request: If you make some modifications like ON_WINDOWS or isWin32 > for the filesystem code, please take into account that: > > 1) 8+3-filesystems are _not_ limited to Windows-systems. Thus it would > be better to name it fileSystem8_3 or something like that. > > 2) To decide if a filesystem is limited to 8+3-naming it would imho be > nicer not to check if the separator character is "\" (because this fail > on some systems which uses a 8+3-filesystem, but the more convenient "/" > as a separator). Instead some system property would imho be better.
Agreed. Could you supply a patch that cleans up the current code to separate the 8.3 thing and the file separator thing to explicitly mention something like fileSystem8_3 and introduces a system property that the runtime should set when such a file system is set? Thanks, Mark
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