New images up with fixes

[Bill Sun]

It's finally working on Windows again!

I want to thank Brian and Lee for your time and
actively bugging Windows users that happen to drop by
the irc channel.

Thanks again!

-Bill

--- Brian Rice <water at tunes.org> wrote:

> New alpha images are up with various fixes as I
> found them in  
> surrounding libraries.
> 
> I have created a new parser for filenames which is
> much more generic  
> and robust (and satisfies every test I've thrown at
> it - tests/ 
> file.slate includes some examples now), but
> currently the bootstrap  
> which includes these is broken, so I'll have to
> continue to work on  
> it to get it integrated and delivered. Hopefully
> this will be soon.
> 
> In the meantime, my initial patch is in the main
> repository but not  
> bootstrapped in, of course. If you read it
> carefully, you will see  
> that it can be loaded into a live image and you can
> try it and it  
> should work, although more files than just
> lib/file.slate are  
> modified (eg the pre-bootstrap and directory.slate),
> so don't expect  
> a trivial load-and-go - just FYI.
> 
> On Jun 7, 2005, at 11:41 AM, Brian Rice wrote:
> 
> > It appears that Windows paths are not correctly
> parsed, and  
> > furthermore that this is the issue with "Directory
> current" being  
> > used in pathnames after directory.slate is loaded.
> I am working on  
> > the filename-parsing code to handle all of this
> robustly. A fix  
> > should be out in a few hours.
> >
> > Thanks, and sorry for the trouble.
> 
> --
> -Brian
> 
> 



		
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