[Mono-list] xbuild: Including backslashes that shouldn't get converted to forward slashes

[Andres G. Aragoneses]

On 15/06/15 20:42, Andres G. Aragoneses wrote:
> On 15/06/15 19:34, Matt Zinkevicius wrote:
>> I have an msbuild/xbuild file which uses the Exec task to invoke a
>> command
>> line tool. The tool takes a regular expression as a parameter, which
>> in my
>> case contains a backslash (\) character. It seems that xbuild converts
>> all
>> backslashes into forward slashes, as they usually represent a directory
>> separation character, but in this specific case I need it passed without
>> conversion. I have tried escaping (\\) and encoding (\) but neither
>> worked.
>>
>> How can this be achieved?
>
> It's probably an xbuild bug, as it should only try to convert the first
> element, not the arguments.

I take that back, since the arguments can contain file paths too. I 
guess this is a hard problem to solve. Maybe the \ -> / conversion 
should only live in the IO layer, not in the xbuild layer.