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Steve Long <slong@××××××××××××××××××.uk> posted |
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gbc5v2$50d$1@×××××××××.org, excerpted below, on Wed, 24 Sep 2008 02:34:33 |
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> "Why do we never have time to do it right, but always plenty of time to |
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> do it over." |
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> In this case, you're saying "oh anyone who wants something that copes |
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> with all filenames can do their own." IOW to do it right, we'll have to |
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> do it over, further down the line. |
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It seems to me, we're building a lib function. As such, we can take the |
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time to do it right, now, and won't have to worry about it again. Asking |
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someone to code their own solution if it's doing the same thing but with |
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"complex" filenames is asking for trouble. We already have designs for a |
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good wheel and are now discussing asking people to design their own. Why? |
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If we do it right in the default function, particularly since it can be |
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called /as/ a default function in an expanded version if necessary, |
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there's one less place to make brain-dead mistakes like that missing |
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double-quote. |
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That said, as always, I'm quite aware I'm not the one actually |
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implementing it, so I'm not going to throw stones regardless of how it's |
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implemented. I just know if I ever decide to take that step to Gentoo |
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devhood, or even just for my own ebuilds, it's sure be nice to not even |
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have to worry about whether there's spaces or weird chars in the name, |
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period. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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