Re: [ANNOUNCE] Updated Packages in Pre-Release - July 28

|--==> "APA" == Adrian Aichner <adrian(a)xemacs.org&gt; writes: SY> Great. How is zenirc? The previous version gave me problems SY> but I haven't yet checked this one. Don't jump on me, this is SY> exactly what the Pre-Release section is for. APA> It works well, except when zenirc [info] contains single instances of APA> " embedded in escape sequences (for Japanese text). Ok. I discovered that my problem was self-inflicted anyway. APA> We don't plan to allow whitespace in package names, do we? SY> It's not something I've thought about, but I'd probably SY> discourage it. I think whitespace in filenames/function & SY> variable names is evil at the best of times. APA> We should make an official decision one way or the other on that an APA> enforce it by law :-) OFFICIAL DECISION: Anyone found putting whitespace characters in any of the XEmacs Packages' filenames, function names, variable names, macro names etc will be shot on sight! APA> So, I'd propose this format (without quoting by " or ` APA> instead): APA> Retrieving package speedbar-1.21-pkg.tar.gz ... APA> Removing old files for package speedbar ... APA> Removing old files for package speedbar ... done APA> Installing package speedbar ... APA> Added package speedbar SY> I'll support this. Have you got time to do the patch, Adrian? SY> Or should I add it to my own TODO list? APA> Perhaps we should take a step back an as ourselves what the right APA> thing to do is? APA> Take out the quotes here, or add quotes to messages printing path names? Thinking more about it, is it really all that important? It really doesn't bother me whether things in the message buffer are single-quoted, double-quoted, sans-quotes or whatever. And I think that trying to enforce conformity here would be a waste of time and effort. Most of us here would probably toe the line, but not many other people outside our XEmacs family would. Any reason that you can come up with for using a particular convention, somebody else will come up with an equally compelling reason to not conform. Perhaps this particular worm can should stay closed? -- |---<Steve Youngs>---------------<GnuPG KeyID: 9E7E2820>---| | XEmacs - It's not just an editor. | | It's a way of life. | |------------------------------------&lt;youngs(a)xemacs.org&gt;---|