[platform-core-dev] Pathology, take two

[John Arthorne <John_Arthorne@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I have updated the valid path characters
proposal with a new solution. Essentially, where the previous proposal
for toString/fromString escaped the device separator with a double slash
(c:\foo encoded as c:\\\foo), the new solution leaves the device separator
alone, and instead escapes literal colon characters in path segments (/foo:bar
encoded as /foo::bar). This preserves the important property of full backward
compatibility with the Eclipse 3.0 implementation of IPath.toString, removing
the need for clients who currently serialize paths from having to migrate
their data.  Read the revised proposal for all the details. Comments
welcome.

http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/platform-core-home/documents/path_changes.html