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

Stephan Witt st.witt at gmx.net
Sun Feb 23 14:29:13 UTC 2020


Am 23.02.2020 um 13:50 schrieb Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <lasgouttes at lyx.org>:
> 
> Le 23/02/2020 à 11:40, Enrico Forestieri a écrit :
>> On Sun, Feb 23, 2020 at 12:35:53AM +0100, Enrico Forestieri wrote:
>>> On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 07:55:13PM +0100, Enrico Forestieri wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Still, why realPath() returns a short path name in one case and not in the
>>>> other case remains a mystery.
>>> 
>>> Mystery solved. On Windows, our implementation of realPath() works only with
>>> file names but does not work with directory names. On the other hand,
>>> QFileInfo::canonicalFilePath() does not resolve junctions (directory
>>> symlinks).
>> Dropping support for Windows Xp, the attached patch works for me with
>> both files and directories. I am going to apply it, as I think it is
>> not controversial, given that MS dropped support for Win7 these year
>> (while we still support both WinVista and Win7).
> 
> I have no definitive idea about that, but you should update README if you apply it.
> 
> Stephan, do we still support MacOS X 10.4, BTW?

I don’t think so. What do you mean with support? At build time or at runtime?

The LyX 2.3 package I’ve created requires 10.10 at least and 64-bit X86 cpu.

Qt has its own minimum versions. For 5.12 I cannot look it up, ATM.

Stephan


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