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

|--==> "APA" == Adrian Aichner <adrian(a)xemacs.org&gt; writes: Charles> Steve Youngs writes: APA> We don't plan to allow whitespace in package names, do we? >>>It's not something I've thought about, but I'd probably discourage >>>it. I think whitespace in filenames/function & variable names is evil >>>at the best of times. Charles> While I have to agree with you about whitespace in names Charles> of functions or variables, I have come to accept Charles> whitespace in filenames as a normal part of life. A few APA> Like that :-) APA> Loading c:\Program Files\XEmacs\XEmacs-21.5-b2\etc\sample.init.el...done Yeah but we all know that long filenames in Windoze is an absolute joke. Hidden under that "Program Files" is a good ol 8.3 M$DOG filename. The only reason those idiots at M$ implemented their "pseudo" long filenames was so they could say "Hey look at us, we're rilly kewl d00dz coz we got long filenames". Sorry, got carried away. I'll get off my soap box now. My apologies to anyone who was offended. APA> My point is that above message goes to the message-log without APA> quoting, so package messages should not have quotes around package APA> names either. APA> Perhaps we should instead decide that all file names written to APA> messge-log SHOULD BE surrounded by double-quotes? Hang on, now I'm confused. Do you want the quotes or not? APA> I see it every that. If only MS succeeded to handle embedded WS in APA> filenames everywhere. They don't! Sometimes you have to double-quote APA> such names, sometimes not. Gotta love em. -- |---<Steve Youngs>---------------<GnuPG KeyID: 9E7E2820>---| | XEmacs - It's not just an editor. | | It's a way of life. | |------------------------------------&lt;youngs(a)xemacs.org&gt;---|