On Fri, 24 Aug 2001 17:52, Stephane Bailliez wrote: > > the names and this did not work. While this problem is somewhat > > superficial, when we tried to supply an implementation of > > PatternSet which > > did what we wanted we found that it was not very pluggable and it was > > nearly impossible. > > there is also a problem with commas since it is a valid character in a > directory name. (I know this is crazy but I remember someone complaining > about a failure in JUnit because we were tokenizing a comma separated list > of parameters.)
The problem is that some revision control systems (ie rcs/cvs) use commas in file names ;/ -- Cheers, Pete *-----------------------------------------------------* * "Faced with the choice between changing one's mind, * * and proving that there is no need to do so - almost * * everyone gets busy on the proof." * * - John Kenneth Galbraith * *-----------------------------------------------------*
