Agnostic URI/path

[vbjay]

Related: #14590

.Net needs a way to represent a path that isn't a string but a struct or class. I am working on the GitExtensions project. Git returns linux paths. Creating a System.URI instance with a path like /d/git/GitExtensions/ fails on Windows. I have found a few projects that try to manage paths.

• https://github.com/psmacchia/NDepend.Path
• https://github.com/nemec/pathlib
• https://github.com/alexeveritt/CSharpPathResolver

Being able to store a normalized path in our variables that can be translated to URIs or posix or... would be very helpful. All of the following paths should be stored in a normalized posix format that can then be used in any path usage.

c:\git\project 1\file
c:\git/project 1/file
/c/git/project 1/file
\\server\share\folder 1\file

I was hoping I could use System.URI as the backing store of the path objects but linux paths are a no go so I am looking into other solutions.

[danmoseley]

@JeremyKuhne

[vbjay]

Another point, when checking equality the first 3 paths should be equal.

[vbjay]

Also making this work in .net standard so the full framework also exhibits the same behaviour would be great.

[ctigrisht]

please fix this it's been a long time