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 ;-) -- Stand still, and let the rest of the universe move
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