Re: DEP-5 and files with white spaces

[Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>]

Benjamin Drung <bdrung@debian.org> writes:

> Am Mittwoch, den 01.02.2012, 14:20 -0800 schrieb Russ Allbery:
>> Benjamin Drung <bdrung@debian.org> writes:
>> 
>> > DEP-5 is nice, but how can I specify a license for a file with white
>> > spaces? For example you want to specify that the file "foo/file one.bar"
>> > is licensed under ISC, but "foo/file_one.bar" is licensed under GPL. How
>> > can you do that?
>> 
>> No, that distinction isn't representable.  There was some earlier
>> discussion about that, and the conclusion reached was that it was a rare
>> case that wasn't worth making the syntax more complicated (after various
>> more complicated syntaxes were tossed around without making anyone very
>> happy).
>
> Is it to complex to have a syntax that is similar to what the shell
> does? Two solutions pop into my mind. Please let me know, why these are
> not use. You can point me to previous discussions.
>
> Idea 1: Use a escape sequence for specifying a whitespace (e.g. "\ " for
> a space).
>
> Idea 2: Allow quotation marks.

Not a solution on its own. What about a file named foo" bar' baz?

For a worst case what about files with newlines?

MfG
        Goswin