Windows: path.join is lowercasing the drive letter

[adam-lynch]

To reproduce:

• Run nw.exe from 0.10.5

• Paste this in the dev tools console:

  var path = require('path');
  var os = require('os');
  console.log(path.join(os.tmpdir(), 'Ab'));

Expected: C:\........\Ab

Actual: c:\....\Ab

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Happens with 0.10.5 but not 0.8.6. Tested on Windows 7 and 8.

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[chaseWillden]

That's actually not an issue with Node-Webkit per se. You can find the Node.js references here

Specifically the code exporting the normalize function in exports.normalize

// If device is a drive letter, we'll normalize to lower case.
    if (device && device.charAt(1) === ':') {
      device = device[0].toLowerCase() + device.substr(1);
    }

and in exports.join (i.e. path.join) normalize is called:

return exports.normalize(joined);

So by default, the drive letter is lower cased by default by Node.Js standards.

[adam-lynch]

Yeah I assumed it was probably something Node had changed. Do you know which version changed this?

[chaseWillden]

Here's the revision page and I believe that was released in version v0.10.25 of NodeJs on January 23

[adam-lynch]

Node issue: nodejs/node-v0.x-archive#7031

[Christywl]

Works fine on nwjs-sdk-v0.26.3, please try the latest nwjs build.

[adam-lynch]

Optimistically closing 😄