Backslashes (windows) break Linux/OSX

[joewheaton]

This issue originated in riverscapes-tools/issues/367#issuecomment-893891369.

@MattReimer said this a problem in all versions of RAVE, so this is the sister post to Riverscapes/QRAVEPlugin#30 for ArcRAVE:

ArcRave should be able to handle windows slashes in project files, even on mac.

example:

<Raster guid="9e5b9cb9-cbad-40ce-99fd-dbe100552bac" id="DEM">
    <Name>DEM</Name>
    <Path>inputs\dem.tif</Path>
</Raster>

On a Mac or linux this will be a path not found.

[philipbaileynar]

@joewheaton what does this mean?

ArcRave should be able to handle windows slashes in project files, even on mac.

Arc only runs on Windows... Hopefully you're not thinking Parallels on a Mac? We've been down this road with GCD. Supporting products living in ESRI within virtualization environments is an endless nightmare of pain.

Also, has anyone actually reported a bug in ArcRAVE? Backslashes must already work, surely? Forward slashes?

[joewheaton]

Dough... That makes sense ☺️