Changes between Version 6 and Version 7 of Development FAQ

Timestamp:

Apr 27, 2007, 8:43:05 PM (17 years ago)

Author:

John Bailey

Comment:

fix my grammatical error

Development FAQ

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 Without this, on Windows systems the opened files will use Windows default translation (<CR><LF> for newline, for example).  This will cause errors due to newline format and the "bytes read" counts, which will be wrong when comparing the return value of `read()` to `stat()`.
 
-=== Why is `G_DIR_SEPARATOR_S` and `G_DIR_SEPARATOR` used everywhere? ===
+=== Why are `G_DIR_SEPARATOR_S` and `G_DIR_SEPARATOR` used everywhere? ===
 This is a matter of maintaining cross-platform compatibility.  Windows uses a backslash ("\") for directory separators in paths, while UNIX-like systems use the forward slash ("/").  Other OSes may choose to use other separators--for example, prior to Mac OS X, it was common for the directory separator on Macs to be a colon (":").  It is impractical to use preprocessor directives throughout the code to determine the path style to use, especially if a new OS were to appear and use a different directory separator.  GLib, which we already use, provides the convenient separator macro, so we use this to reduce our code complexity and maintain cross-platform portability.