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

SY> |--==> "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). SY> 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 :-) SY> OFFICIAL DECISION: SY> Anyone found putting whitespace characters in any of the XEmacs SY> Packages' filenames, function names, variable names, macro names SY> 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 APA> path names? SY> Thinking more about it, is it really all that important? It SY> really doesn't bother me whether things in the message buffer SY> are single-quoted, double-quoted, sans-quotes or whatever. SY> And I think that trying to enforce conformity here would be a SY> waste of time and effort. Most of us here would probably toe Yeah, not worth my effort I agree :-) SY> the line, but not many other people outside our XEmacs family SY> would. SY> Any reason that you can come up with for using a particular SY> convention, somebody else will come up with an equally SY> compelling reason to not conform. SY> Perhaps this particular worm can should stay closed? Closed. -- Adrian Aichner mailto:adrian＠xemacs.org http://www.xemacs.org/