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Thomas Mercer-Hursh
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Given the nature of the tool, it may or may not be run on the platform that the developer is using. In an environment with Windows development and *nix production for the DB, it is likely to be desirable to run the tool on the *nix platform so that the DB is equally available to all developers. But, one would hardly want to require that. Clearly, simply requiring the propath to contain drive letters is a workable solution and the top level test to enforce that is simple enough to create. But, doesn't it bother you that if one is asking multiple language features for the full path of a file that one consistently includes the drive letters on Windows while the other does not? As I said, I am sure that if I ask about this that the language in file-info which parallels search() will mean that I will be told "performing as designed", but that doesn't keep me from thinking it is wrong and hoping there is something I have overlooked .... but it is appearing that I haven't.
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