[CMake] another problem with ENV vars and windows paths

[David Cole]

The reverse could be useful for running a custom command on Windows with 
a tool that does not take POSIX paths as input... If I have a CMake 
variable that points to my binary tree, or some other location found by 
CMake for me, I may want to pass its "Windows equivalent" to a "dumb old 
tool" that takes Windows paths only as input. Without the reverse 
operation, I'll still have to use the STRING REPLACE "trick"...

William A. Hoffman wrote:

>At 08:34 AM 3/22/2006, David Cole wrote:
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>>Seems like this functionality should (perhaps) be in the STRING command...
>>And that the reverse transform should also be available.
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>>Isn't it simply transforming one string into a related form...?
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>>2 cents,
>>David
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>Could be FILE could be STRING, I am guessing if you asked 100 developers it
>would be 50/50.  It is converting a PATH, and although at the end of the day
>that is a string operation, it is relevant to files and paths only, and not just
>any string.
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>I am not sure why you would use the reverse, or even what it would mean on unix, where
>no conversion will actually take place anyway.
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>-Bill
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