Forward slashes in project.json paths don't work when trying to include files in a sibling folder

[dsplaisted]

I'm trying to include some source code in my project from another folder. The following works:

"code": "..\\Serilog.FullNetFx\\**\\*.cs",
"exclude": "..\\Serilog.FullNetFx\\**\\*-net40.cs"

However, if I use forward slashes, it doesn't include any of the source files:

"code": "../Serilog.FullNetFx/**/*.cs",
"exclude": "../Serilog.FullNetFx/**/*-net40.cs"

It seems like forward slashes do work when they are describing a path in the current directory (ie "**/*.cs"), but not with a path that begins by going up one level with "..".

[desdesdes]

I was also wondering what the proper path separator would be when you want to be able to open or build a project on both windows and linux. Should you always use / or \ or would both be converted to the platform path separator. Personally i would prefer always using the / as the only valid path separator because in linux / is just a valid character in a file or directory name, so this would prevent some problems. It might be a good idea to document this in the project.json and global.json documentation.

[davidfowl]

I'll try it out but / is supposed to work (and did last time I tried). @desdesdes The correct way to work cross platform is to use / always, we're not going to automatically convert \ to / everywhere in the stack so best it's best if the right slashes are used for relative paths.