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#101 Use forward slashes in all paths for OS portability?
Minor issue but ... Would it be feasible to automatically use forward slashes in all paths to aid portability of projects, debug launches etc. across OS platforms (Windows, Linux, MacOS)? For example the debug launch configuration fills the executable path with, say, Debug\myprog on Windows but that doesn't work on Linux (where it would expect Debug/myprog). Since forward slashes seem to work across all relevant OS platforms could they be used across the board? E.g. have the plugins "normalise" paths to use only forward slashes. I have no idea how difficult this would be (maybe some of the processing is in the base CDT and not easily changed?) or if there are some gotchas that I haven't thought of...
Thanks
yes, that's a good point, using forward slashes even on windows would increase portability.
time permitting, I'll take a look at it, but, as you guessed, the code is in the base CDT and changing it might be difficult.
could you prepare a list of places where you would like the paths normalised?
Thanks for the quick reply.
Let me try to collate a list of locations.
My main one at the moment is the aforementioned debug launch executable name (usually Debug\myprog).
I'll try to post back ASAP.