[TYPO3-50-general] Getting rid of DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR

[Karsten Dambekalns]

Hi.

Currently a lot of places use the PHP constant DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR. This 
constant belongs to the directory functions (see 
http://de.php.net/manual/en/ref.dir.php), i.e. it is not even defined 
for the usual filesystem functions like fopen nor is it required for 
include/require. PHP translates a forward slash automagically on Windows.

When specifying paths in php.ini it is even *required* to always use a 
forward slash, even when on Windows.

What I want to say is: let's remove this ugly thing and just use / 
everywhere. Agreed?


For the sake of completeness: when calling local commands with exec() 
and friends one has to use the "right" separator, this is when it might 
come in handy...


If anyone can come up with same hard proof for all this, even if it is 
the PHP source code, please tell me.


Regards,
Karsten
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