Re: [gentoo-dev] glep 42 (news) round six

[Patrick Lauer <patrick@gentoo.org>]

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On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 09:57 -0500, Philip Webb wrote:
> > You are encouraged to reply to this thread
> > saying "I agree with ciaranm
> > that repository IDs should not be allowed to contain spaces".
> 
> No problem at all there (smile): spaces in names are A Bad Thing for Unix,
> as they conflict with the basic format of the command-line
> & were introduced by M$ (Mac ?) to make things easier for idiots.
So you're saying long filenames were invented by Microsoft for Windows
95? ;-)
As long as programmers don't assume that filenames won't have spaces I
don't see the problem

> The proper procedure for Unix-type systems is to use an underline symbol.
Which "standard" says that, and how silly is that?
We're past the 80s, there's no reason to limit filenames to alphanumeric
(as I think with the same reasoning you'd forbid unicode ...)
> > Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (I can kill you with my brain)
> Does your brain really contain that many viruses ... ?
Only because it runs Windows ;-)
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