std.path review: second update

[Johannes Pfau]

Lars T. Kyllingstad wrote:
>Here's a new update based on your comments and requests.  Code and
>docs are in the usual place,
>
>  https://github.com/kyllingstad/phobos/blob/std-path/std/path.d
>  http://www.kyllingen.net/code/std-path/phobos-prerelease/std_path.html
>
>Here are the highlights:
>
>* UNC paths, i.e. \\server\share\..., are now (hopefully) handled 
>correctly on Windows.  See the baseName(), dirName(), rootName(), 
>driveName(), pathSplitter(), etc. docs for examples.
>
>* Support for //foo/bar paths on POSIX has been removed.
>
>* rootName() is new.
>
>* pathSplitter() now returns a bidirectional range.
>
>* pathCharMatch() and fcmp() have been replaced by improved functions 
>filenameCharCmp() and filenameCmp(), respectively, with optional case 
>sensitivity.
>
>* joinPath() has been renamed to buildPath().
>
>* Added a function buildNormalizedPath(), which performs normalization 
>while joining the segments.
>
>* Redefined normalize() in terms of buildNormalizedPath().
>
>I am still unsure of the extent to which long UNC paths (i.e. \\?\...) 
>should be supported, if at all.  If anyone has anything to say on the 
>matter, please do. :)
>
>-Lars

As globMatch's "individual character comparisons are done calling
filenameCharCmp()" and filenameCharCmp has case-sensitive and
case-insensitive versions, could we also get this behavior for
globMatch?

I even have a use case for this ;-)
The FreeDesktop MIME database uses it:
http://standards.freedesktop.org/shared-mime-info-spec/shared-mime-info-spec-latest.html

"Applications MUST match globs case-insensitively, except when the
case-sensitive attribute is set to true. This is so that e.g. main.C
will be seen as a C++ file, but IMAGE.GIF will still use the *.gif
pattern."
-- 
Johannes Pfau