Re: Make g_rename() replace existing files on Win32?

[Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com>]

On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 15:41 +0200, Tor Lillqvist wrote:
> J. Ali Harlow writes:
>  > The advantages outweigh the tiny API breakage.
> 
> Yup. And especially as I finally found out that one of the reasons why
> Evolution's "on this machine" folders never showed up on Win32 was
> partially because of this rename() issue, I went ahead with the change.
> 
> At the same time I also fixed the Win32 implementation of g_stat() to
> strip trailing slashes as necessary. (Sounds incredible, but yes,
> otherwise the stat() in Microsoft's C library fails. For instance
> stat("c:\\windows\\", &st) fails but stat("c:\\windows", &st) works
> ok.) This was the other cause for the local folders not to show up in
> Evo... It is just too much hassle to require callers of g_stat() to
> strip away such trailing nonsignificant slashes themselves (and at the
> same time be careful enough not to remove the slash from the root of a
> drive, like "c:/").
> 

Just make sure you mention the "tiny API breakage" in the release notes.
I already started collecting items for 2.10 release notes in README.in.

Matthias