Subject: bug#6339: url-filename => "/c:/some/file.txt"

From: Juanma Barranquero <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 00:59:01 +0200

On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 00:51, Lennart Borgman
<[email-masked]> wrote:

> Of course the behaviour must be fixed too. I meant to write that it is
> ok that url-filename returns a system-dependent absolute file name
> (for local files).

When you do (url-filename (url-generic-parse-url "file:///SOMEPATH"))
you are not checking SOMEPATH against the local filesystem (the path
does not need to exist, for example). So, when you say
"system-dependant" and "local files", what you're really saying is
that SOMEPATH should be analyzed to see whether it is POSIX-style, or
Windows-style, or whatever, to "fix it" or "leave it alone" according
to the detected style.

And yes, we have already discussed that. It is certainly possible. It
is also ugly and ad hoc, and ugly too.

    Juanma