> Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 23:54:44 +0200 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl Berry) > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [email protected] > > Those platform will probably not have users have white spaces in > the directory names. > > Actually, the only significant platform that does not support symlinks > these days is Windows. And Windows is also a very likely place where > users will use whitespace in names.
Exactly. > However, I had the impression the patch would not cause non-symlink > platforms to always fail now, so they'd be no worse off than before. > Was that wrong? If so, the symlink stuff should probably be made > conditional to when the name actually includes whitespace. I'd rather we had a solution that worked on all platforms alike. If someone sends me a clear-cut test case, I might try finding time to work on such a solution. _______________________________________________ Texinfo home page: http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/ [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-texinfo
