[sylpheed:31027] Re: Backslash bug (was "error occured while processing messages")

Hiroyuki Yamamoto hiro-y at kcn.ne.jp
Wed Mar 14 18:31:46 JST 2007


Hello,

On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 08:25:48 +0000
Andrei Mircea <mircea.andrei at wanadoo.fr> wrote:

> I got no more reactions to the the issue detailed below, relative to
> the appearance of backslashes in the folderlist.xml file. These
> backslashes are introduced by the Windows version of Sylpheed, but
> they are harmful since the Linux version cannot correctly read the
> corresponding sub-folder paths. The Windows version is happy without
> them (it can use the paths with  normal slashes). It is highly
> desirable to be able to use folderlist.xml both from Linux and
> Windows, therefore I propose to include this small modification of
> the Windows version in the list for the next beta or rc version.

Fixed in svn trunk. Now, when creating a new subfolder, the separator
will be always '/'. All previous paths with '\' will also be converted
to '/' when folderlist.xml is loaded (win32 only, because '\' is a
valid filename character in Unix).

-- 
Hiroyuki Yamamoto <hiro-y at kcn.ne.jp>


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