On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 08:39:55PM +0000, David W Noon wrote: > > Not on the system I maintain. :-) But in general I think you are > > right, though I don't know why. Mac and Windows OS's prove it is very > > successful and doable. > > I think that usage of the command line for creating directories is the > reason. To create a directory with one or more spaces in its name > requires that the space(s) be escaped with a backslash or the name be > enclosed in either apostrophes or quotes, However, the possibility > should always be catered for.
Exactly. Even if I create dirs myself on windows, I still never put spaces in them. > The upshot is that I always wrap environment variables in quotes (not > apostrophes!) if they represent path/file names in scripts. It is > simply "best practice" in a modern context. The install.sh script is mostly last century. -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
