Speaking as someone who did what GP suggested, it can be cross-platform; I just abstracted the string to path and path to string conversions, as well as any pat

Speaking as someone who did what GP suggested, it can be cross-platform; I just abstracted the string to path and path to string conversions, as well as any path operations that are different across platforms. The first thing to realize to make it work is that paths are not strings, so you actually don't want to treat them like they are.