mkdir -p not working on windows about elevation

[chahank]

Is there still anyone active on this repository?

[alexamici]

I'm sorry the tools has been design to work on Linux/MacOS/Unix and I never tested it on Windows. It may work using the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), but it is not supported.

[chahank]

Thanks for the reply! That is what we figured out. We tested the package quite a bit also on Windows and found that:

• make can be installed with conda
• unzip can be globally installed with UnxUtils
• mv dito
• find dito, but the PATH must be set before the winows command find

However,

• mkdir from UnxUtils won't work because option -p is ignored.

This could be easily solved by using mkir from windows directly, but this must be done without the -p flag (the windows mkdir applied the flag implicitly). Hence, a simple solution to make the package usable would be to add an if statement to use mkdir instead of mkdir -p when the system is windows.

[gdt]

You might consider filing a bug with windows that it is not implementing the -p option which is required by POSIX: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/

While that seems hard, it would probably make a lot of things work better on Windows if it were fixed.

[chahank]

Thanks for the idea. However, I do not think this would quickly fix the problem (if it is done at all).