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

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 Like that :-) Loading c:\Program Files\XEmacs\XEmacs-21.5-b2\etc\sample.init.el...done My point is that above message goes to the message-log without quoting, so package messages should not have quotes around package names either. Perhaps we should instead decide that all file names written to messge-log SHOULD BE surrounded by double-quotes? I see it every that. If only MS succeeded to handle embedded WS in filenames everywhere. They don't! Sometimes you have to double-quote such names, sometimes not. Charles> space characters in a filename should not present undue Charles> difficulties... on the other hand, *newlines* in But the xemacs package system could disallow spaces in package names. Charles> filenames are really evil! (I've always been rather Charles> amazed by the existence of find(1)'s -print0 argument; I Charles> wonder who on Earth came up with that one?) -- Adrian Aichner mailto:adrian＠xemacs.org http://www.xemacs.org/