[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] path seperator makeover

[Sascha Sommer]

On Thursday 12 August 2004 00:04, Joey Parrish wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm releasing new cygwin packages soon, so time for another round of
> hopefully useful patches.  :)
>
> Attached is a patch to alter the way paths are handled in MPlayer.  This
> patch allows both unix-style paths and a variety of windows-style paths
> in playlist code.  The current way is to have playlist code look for
> PATH_SEP which is defined to either / or \.  And mplayer.c's mp_basename
> macro only looked for /, as well.
>
> The problem is that cygwin systems can handle unix or windows paths at
> once.  So why choose one or the other at compile time?
>
> mp_basename now finds either / or \.
> Playlist basename code now does this:
>  sees /path/to/file as a full path
>  sees c:\windows as a full path
>  sees \windows as a near-full path (and prepends playlist drive letter)
>  sees file.avi as a relative path (and prepends path to playlist)
>
> This should not change anything under linux.
> Please test, comment, or say "commit".
>

Commit.

Sascha