[Zope3-checkins] Re: [Checkins] SVN: Zope3/trunk/src/zope/component/ do not try to split path information along ':', since that doesn't work under Windows

[Wolfgang Schnerring]

* Fred Drake <fdrake at gmail.com> [2006-09-27 10:15]:
> On 9/27/06, Wolfgang Schnerring <wosc at wosc.de> wrote:
> >Log message for revision 70399:
> >  do not try to split path information along ':', since that doesn't work 
> >  under Windows
> 
> This seems like more change than necessary, just to avoid using ":" on 
> Windows.
> 
> Perhaps just changing the ":" literals to os.pathsep references would
> do the trick?

I don't have a strong opinion here; I'll just note that cross-platform
pathnames and/or shell quoting rules are probably rather diverse, and
I'd just as well *not* deal with them -- so the change might be
unproportionally big, but I reckon it is a safe bet in any case.

Wolfgang