[mythtv] Ticket #4270: MythTV on Windows (with MinGW)

[Andrei Tanas]

> Speaking of which: does somebody want to take a look at how Myth
> handles file paths? If under Linux a network share can be mounted so
> it's accessible using the same path (like /home/mythtv/videos), it's
> not possible to do so with Windows. This kind of messes things up,
> since MythVideo shares the same configurations between all machines in
> one system.
> Also, ':' is being treated as a separator, which makes it impossible to
> use drive letters (which, coincidentally, is needed to use network
> shares).
> 
> Network shares can use UNC paths (\\servername\share) rather than drive
> letters.

Ugh, I know that, but it doesn't make it possible to map a directory on a
Linux server and on Windows frontend so it's accessible to applications on
both systems using exactly the same path.