[3.0] _normalizePath and _replaceTokens break paths on WAMP

[tomws]

I'm having trouble with _normalizePath and _replaceTokens and image paths when developing on WAMP.

Uploading a file causes the file path to be stored with an absolute Windows path. For example, using a 'dir' setting of 'uploads/{ModelName}' and uploading the file 'myfile.jpg' saves the 'dir' data as C:\wamp\www\my_app_name\app\webroot\uploads\my_model_name\myfile.jpg. The file is saved to the correct location, but Apache cannot display an image from that absolute path. If I comment out the call to _normalizePath on line 95 (inside the setup function, commit 14d1467... I think), I'm able to solve part of the problem. The path saves as a relative "uploads\my_model_name" and I can build a path from which Apache can display the images.

The other part of the problem deals with _replaceTokens (line 555 of the same commit) forcefully overwriting manually entered directory separators. If it would only replace the tokens, my dir path above with "/" would be fine, but the function replaces both forward and back slashed with the system's DS - in this case, a Windows backslash. That would seem to be beyond desired capability, imho. To fix this problem, I had to comment out the last two parameters of the search and replace arrays in _replaceToken's str_replace function, as below:
return str_replace(
array('{ModelName}', '{fieldName}', '{DS}'),//, '/', ''),
array(Inflector::underscore($model->name), $fieldName, DS),//, DS, DS),
$string
);

I'm unsure if this is an inherent problem with developing on a Windows system, or if it's a problem with meio_upload's path handling. Can someone advise how the situation should be handled?