Re: [RFC] Do not treat '\' as escape character on MinGW Windows hosts

Joel Brobecker
2010-04-22T12:33:15Z

> >Understood, and it's not obvious to me that you'll be outvoted. This
> >is why I am asking for comments more than a review at this point.
> >I would like to challenge the "workaround" term, though :-P. I much as
> >I dislike Windows (and believe me, I really dislike this platform),
> >I think that if we are going to support Windows,
>
> That, then, is the fundamental question. Certainly, Windows support
> adds to code complexity, which is always a bad thing.

Let's imagine that we have a bug in the software, can we reasonably tell
the user that his bug will not be fixed because the fix complexifies
the code? To a Windows user, not being able to use backslashes in paths
is a bug!

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Joel