[RFC][PATCH] Change to buffer lookup for given temporary files
Richard Kimberly Heck
rikiheck at lyx.org
Sun Feb 23 17:52:46 UTC 2020
On 2/23/20 7:50 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> 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.
I am not totally sure, but I seem to recall that Uwe stopped pledging
support for XP quite some time ago. There was some specific reason, I
think, but I can't recall what it was.
Riki
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