Re: DEP 5 and directory/file names with spaces
On Sunday 07 June 2009 03:02:32 Ben Finney wrote:
> Andres Mejia <mcitadel@gmail.com> writes:
> > On Sunday 07 June 2009 01:47:04 Ben Finney wrote:
> > > Thanks for raising this problem with the current draft. I agree that
> > > it needs to be changed to allow spaces in the patterns.
>
> […]
>
> > > I would prefer to have a specification that allows the above field
> > > to be parsed as the patterns ‘foo’, ‘wibble wobble’, ‘bar’, and
> > > ‘baz’. But that of course requires a more complex specification for
> > > stripping leading and trailing space from each pattern, and allowing
> > > leading and trailing space if those actually are *intended* as part
> > > of the pattern, and so on.
> > >
> > > I'm not sure how to resolve this without making the specification
> > > more hairy. Is there prior art we can refer to?
> >
> > You may refer to Debian Policy 7.1.
>
> Policy §7.1 contains, in part:
>
> Whitespace may appear at any point in the version specification
> subject to the rules in Section 5.1, `Syntax of control files', and
> must appear where it's necessary to disambiguate; it is not
> otherwise significant.
>
> That's contrary to what you're saying: we need a specification for file
> names where whitespace *is* significant. How is Policy §7.1 helpful for
> this purpose?
Sorry, didn't take note of that part.
Maybe this is more helpful.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma-separated_values
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Regards,
Andres
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