Re: [cc65] Filenames for POSIX functins on CBM targets

On Friday 10 August 2012, you wrote:
> Idea one: We strive for cross-target filenames. This would (at least
> potentially) allow for non-trivial filename string constants in source
> code to be valid across targets. However the syntax of those strings
> would be so strange to users that it would potentially necessary to
> provide target-specific UIs in order to create them from user input.
> 
> Idea two: We strive for "fully functional" filenames while admitting
> that they are target-specific (beyond the trvial case of
> "filename-only"). They would allow only to share trivial filename
> strings in source code but would be (at least potentially) meaningful
> enough to users of a certain target to be entered directly.
> 
> I personally strongly believe that we should head for 'idea two':

same here. i have written a bunch of things in CC65 now, and while all this 
cross-target-portability is a nice theory, you will almost certainly end up 
with (quite a bunch of) target specific ifdefs in a non trivial program 
anyway.

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