Re: DEP 5 and directory/file names with spaces

[Felipe Sateler <fsateler@gmail.com>]

Andres Mejia wrote:

> On Sunday 07 June 2009 02:16:41 you wrote:
>> On Sun, 2009-06-07 at 00:44 -0400, Andres Mejia wrote:
>> > The current proposal for DEP 5 has this snippet for the 'Files' field.
>> >
>> > "List of space-separated globbing pathnames (see man 7 glob for more
>> > details) indicating files that have the same licence and share
>> > copyright holders."
>> >
>> > This doesn't take into account files or directories that may be named
>> > with spaces.
>> >
>> > I suggest that the Files field use a comma-separated list of globbing
>> > pathnames instead, else something ugly like 'path/with some spaces/'*
>> > would have to be used.
>>
>> That just trades ' ' for ',' as the path not usable.
>>
>> I suggest just shell unescaping before globbing.
>>
>> foo\ bar baz
>> ->
>> 'foo bar' and 'baz'.
>>
>> -Rob
> 
> I would still prefer to use a comma-seperated list instead of a
> space-seperated list as using spaces in directories/files is more common
> (and AFAIK, using commas is less common). The shell escaping could instead
> be used for the commas if necessary.

The space-separated list has the advantage that you can list files on their 
own physical line.

-- 
Felipe Sateler