On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 01:43:55PM +0100, Georg Baum wrote: > Enrico Forestieri wrote: > > > I have a comment on this patch. I see that you get rid of the rtrim call > > in latex_path. This has the following effect: in all cases the argument > > of [EMAIL PROTECTED] will have two '/' appended, except on cygwin when > > cygwin_path_fix_ is true, in which case only one '/' is appended. > > This is because external_path() will trim the trailing '/' when > > cygwin_path_fix_ is true. > > Why does it do that? It does not make any sense to me.
This is the way the cygwin call which convert paths works... > I'll commit the patch as-is rught now. It is a monotonic improvement over > the current situation, we can fix this issue when we know why it happens. I was only being pedantic. I put a lot of attention on those small things because you never know to what a small difference can lead. Anyway, the argument of [EMAIL PROTECTED] should have a single shash appended and the rtrim would guarantee that. -- Enrico PS: Sorry that I cannot reply promptly, but I have also to do some work.
