Re: GWorkspace issues on MinGW

On 2006-08-19 18:04:28 +0300 Luke Kendall <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 19 Aug, Enrico Sersale replied to:
>>   > It's perhaps also a problem with NSFileManager itself when used on  > 
>> Windows, not specifically GWorkspace.    No. You are right; the issues are 
>> really in GWorkspace; all the
>>   app is based on the assumption that there is only one 'root',
>>   that is, "/" on unix. I was not aware that on windows you have
>>   a path tree for each mountable "volume"; this makes the things
>>   quite complex because, to represent this in a browser, you
>>   must add the concept of a "root of the other roots" and write
>>   methods to handle this abstraction...
> 
> Is it an option to try to get it running under Cygwin instead of via
> mingw?  Since cygwin arranges for all the network drives to be mounted
> under /.

If Cygwin has a unique root, the app should run without any change.

> Getting it run under Windows depending on Cygwin sounds like a big
> challenge.  Getting running under Windows independent of Cygwin sounds
> like a *huge* challenge.  Maybe getting it work under Cygwin would be
> an easier first step for "pickleman"?
> 
> luke