Lorenzo wrote:
I still think we should use the Linux-style file system, BUT use drive letters as shortcuts.
Could you explain why? It would just add complexity, IMHO.
Lorenzo
In a book about Win NT internals I read that it is solved like kind of what Andrew said. Win NT generally uses the physical structure (device\harddisk0\parition1). But Access to this structure is done by logical structures which point to the physical structure (c:\ => device\harddisk0\parition1).
But I must say even though I prefer the unix style, to me it seems not practical to use this for ROS. ROS is a Win32 binary compatible system so all applications that (hopefully) will run on it should believe to run on a Win32. The same users should. So if there would be a difference (perhaps possibility to switch to Unix mode) many apps won't get along with it and not run anymore. So there MUST be drive letters to keep compatibility.
Greetings
Björn