On 2/23/20 7:50 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Le 23/02/2020 à 11:40, Enrico Forestieri a écrit : >> On Sun, Feb 23, 2020 at 12:35:53AM +0100, Enrico Forestieri wrote: >>> On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 07:55:13PM +0100, Enrico Forestieri wrote: >>>> >>>> Still, why realPath() returns a short path name in one case and not >>>> in the >>>> other case remains a mystery. >>> >>> Mystery solved. On Windows, our implementation of realPath() works >>> only with >>> file names but does not work with directory names. On the other hand, >>> QFileInfo::canonicalFilePath() does not resolve junctions (directory >>> symlinks). >> >> Dropping support for Windows Xp, the attached patch works for me with >> both files and directories. I am going to apply it, as I think it is >> not controversial, given that MS dropped support for Win7 these year >> (while we still support both WinVista and Win7). > > I have no definitive idea about that, but you should update README if > you apply it.
I am not totally sure, but I seem to recall that Uwe stopped pledging support for XP quite some time ago. There was some specific reason, I think, but I can't recall what it was. Riki -- lyx-devel mailing list lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-devel
