On Wed, Jul 8, 2020 at 7:18 PM Andrew Dunstan < andrew.duns...@2ndquadrant.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
