Tcl file separator

Nellis, Kenneth Kenneth.Nellis@acs-inc.com
Thu Jan 27 17:06:00 GMT 2011


From: Christopher Faylor
> Tcl is currently one part of the Cygwin installation that is pretty
> much pure windows.  It is that way for the sole purpose of working
> with the insight debugger.  So it takes windows paths and is not a
> real Cygwin application.
> 
> I'm working on this very very slowly but I don't have an ETA for when
> this will be fixed.

I'm glad it's getting some attention. Thank you!
IMHO, more important than making it Linux-like is making it self-
consistent, even if it makes it more Windows-like. For example "pwd"
outputs forward slashes while "file separator" outputs backslashes.
Regardless, I trust you (CGF) to make the right choices.

BTW, I use my own version of tclsh, which uses readline for the 
command prompt. I would think a lot of tclsh users would appreciate 
that being part of the standard release. It's probably an upstream
issue, however.

--Ken Nellis


More information about the Cygwin mailing list