[Mono-devel-list] Re: [Mono-patches] r36430 - trunk/mcs/class/System.Web

[Ben Maurer]

> Ben hi.
>
> Have you tested this to see if it wioll break the Win build?
>
> I use both win and Linux and always use / as a path seperator, to keep
> things simple for my own little mind. The only times I have troubles is
> with relative paths, when I am going down the tree. On these occassions
> I need to add the drive as well.
>
> The following code works fine in Win
>
> System.IO.FileInfo mapFile = new
> System.IO.FileInfo("C:/temp/simon.xml"); System.IO.StreamReader reader =
> mapFile.OpenText();
> string strText = reader.ReadToEnd();
> reader.Close();
> textBox1.Text = strText;
>
> Also
> System.IO.FileInfo mapFile = new
> System.IO.FileInfo("myFolder/simon.xml"); works going up the tree. From
> the application directory (bin)


That is because Path.GetFullPath will change to the correct path
component. System.IO stuff calls that method, so it will get fixed.

I guess since we are using MCS it would get fixed. However, for stuff like
the make deps, this will not help.

-- Ben