[eluser]redarc[/eluser]
>the forward slash works on windows and *nix this means the code is portable.
So you're suggesting that mixing separators when on winxxxx is good practice, despite it being trivial to be consistent on both platforms?
I disagree, but it's a minor quibble, far less serious than CI's name space pollution. It's also simple to work around.
This forum was my first port of call when I encountered the problem debugging CI. I found nothing related to the problem here. Maybe because the release of netbeans is pretty new? Maybe because nobody cares?
I posted what worked for me so that the next person with the same problem would have a hit.
Discussing stylistic merits/demerits of CI's implementation here is probably not going to be productive, even if it is relevant in regard to the separator being used. Seems that netbeans chokes when it gets a path with mixed separators (e.g. D:\path\to\ci/system). Avoid that and it's a nice debugger.