Jed and Matt dream of getting rid of the C++ sowing package and using python I dream of getting rid of the C++ win32fe package and using python We are all unrealistic, sadly. Barry On Sep 30, 2014, at 10:21 PM, Satish Balay <[email protected]> wrote:

On Tue, 30 Sep 2014, Barry Smith wrote:

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On Sep 30, 2014, at 10:10 PM, Satish Balay <[email protected]> wrote:

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On Tue, 30 Sep 2014, Barry Smith wrote:

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Can config/BuildSystem/client-python/cygwinpath.c be used to get rid of win32fe?

The functionality looks unrelated to win32fe.

Isn’t that what win32fe does, convert unix style paths to win style paths that then get passed to the windows compilers?

win32fe does more than that.

- converts some gcc type arguments to cl format [for eg: -c, -o] - marshall arguments to cl [for eg: cl is perticular about certain order in which the arguments should be listed] - similar convertion and marshalling of arguments to 'lib' tool - and make it useable similar to 'ar' - And sure - identify and convert (only) PATH type arguments to the windows notation.

cygwinpath.c appears to be a python wrapper to cygwin utility "cygpath" - which helps with path conversions.

$ cygpath -w /home/balay C:\cygwin\home\balay

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Otherwise it should be tossed since it isn’t used by BuildSystem, right?