[Ginp-developers] Platform independent file paths

[Brian B. <br...@Pi...>]

While working on my latest unit test changes, I found there were A LOT 
of embedded forward-slash characters throughout the main source, as well 
as in the unit tests.

I tried to make the build more portable by changing most of the unit 
tests to use File.separator instead, but didn't have the enthusiasm to 
go through the main classes... I could see that sometimes a forward 
slash was probably mandatory because it gets processed explicitly into a 
file path, but any changes would need a lot of care because we don't 
have a comprehensive set of unit tests to prove this kind of change is 
valid.

I don't propose to do any more about this issue in the short term, but 
felt it was important to warn anyone thinking of building or deploying 
ginp on anything other than linux - beware of file path portability issues!

Brian