On Nov 8, 2006, at 7:07 PM, Martin Ritchie wrote:
I don't agree that spaces are that hard to deal with
C'mon, let's be realistic. Ever see any book by Brian Kernighan or
any other UNIX guru that recommends creating pathnames containing
spaces? No, because there's a reason for that. I guarantee you that
pretty much anyone writing a script of any sort that has to deal with
pathnames will get it wrong for pathnames containing spaces, unless
they are explicitly thinking about pathnames containing spaces every
step of the way. Getting all the necessary quoting right, especially
with scripts calling other scripts, is pretty hard.
but I agree that
it should be change. I'm not usually one to create folders with
spaces. A hazard of using a GUI. If you change it back before the
morning then the releasesrc build target needs to be updated.
Am changing it now.
thanks,
--steve
On 08/11/06, Steve Vinoski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I noticed that in the java subdirectory today, somebody committed a
new directory named "Release Docs" under the doc directory. Let's
please change that to "release-docs" or something like that, as
pathnames containing spaces are just generally very hard to deal with
in automated tools and such. I'm happy enough to commit the rename
myself, but I just wanted to check before doing so to make sure
someone isn't counting on the space being there for some reason.
thanks,
--steve
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Martin Ritchie
