[RFC][PATCH] Change to buffer lookup for given temporary files

Enrico Forestieri forenr at lyx.org
Sat Feb 22 23:27:56 UTC 2020


On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 08:24:41AM +0100, Enrico Forestieri wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 10:33:45PM +0100, Stephan Witt wrote:
> > 
> > What I wonder: there are the Qt elements used. Why don’t we rely
> > on the services of QFileInfo class? E.g. canonicalFilePath() and
> > friends? Are there historical reasons only?
> 
> Yes, at the time it was not possible using Qt in src/support.

Hmmm. That does not seem to be the only reason. I now checked
QFileInfo::canonicalFilePath() and it does not work on Windows.
I created a junction but it is not resolved.

-- 
Enrico


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