resurrecting Bud and Rebuild

[Sean Kelly]

Frits van Bommel wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
>> No paths at all will be allowed in the import string. They'll have to 
>> be supplied via the -Jpath command line switch. It's probably more 
>> conservative than necessary, but:
>>
>> 1) introducing host system dependent path separators makes the source 
>> code non-portable
> 
> Don't all systems in any amount of use these days accept '/'? (Yes, that 
> includes Windows)

Sort of.  The windows command shell is supposed to, but it's not usable. 
  For example "cd /" doesn't change to the root directory and "more 
/autoexec.bat" won't dump the contents of that file to the screen.  But 
we're talking about path separators in source code anyway, and '/' has 
been accepted by compilers for as long as I can remember.


Sean