[vlc-devel] [PATCH] src: fix some features not available on Windows App Store versions

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

On 20 Jul, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote :
> >+#if VLC_WINSTORE_APP
> >+    if ((!strncmp(path, "file://{", 8) || path[0] == '{') &&
> >strlen(path) > 32)
> >+        return strdup( path );
> >+    else
> >+#endif
> 
> Is that really Microsoft's intent? Using URIs complete with scheme, as file
> paths seems very weird.

It's a mess, and we already rejected this patch, because it's a mess,
and we had no idea how to do better.

And yes, filepath on WinRT can be actually some tokens.

With my kindest regards,

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