19:40:54_deathmaybe rename-file should have an if-exists parameter
19:41:23ShinmeraI also want a rename-file that doesn't have the frankly mind-boggling behaviour of merge-filing with the source pathname
19:42:53|3b|ACTION thinks merging is reasonable considering rest of pathname stuff, but should be more obvious how to get what people want from that :/
19:43:08ShinmeraI still dunno how to rename a file from one with a type to one without.
19:48:20|3b|hmm, actually, renaming to "foo." seems to work too. wonder which field i was thinking of that needed manual make-pathname?
19:48:38ShinmeraIt's been some years since I did my survey of this crap across implementations for pathname-utils, but iirc there's some really annoying behaviour around this.
19:49:25stassatscreate a symlink, rename it, delete the symlink
19:56:08luisthat whole file is full of hard-coded constants. win32 takes binary compatibility seriously :) Do you mean that you don't like the new semantics or that you're fine with either grovelling or hardcoding?
19:57:20stassatsyeah, there's no convincing argument for either approach