Re: Help with watch file
On Fri, 2016-12-23 at 08:37 -0500, James McCoy wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 05:42:43PM -0500, Bill Blough wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 12:40:26PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > > suffers rather from leaning toothpick syndrome. Does the
> > > `downloadurlmangle' support Perl's ability to handle nonstandard
> > > delimiters ? Using something other than / means that / does not need
> > > to be \-escaped. { } are often a good choice.
> >
> > A quick look through the uscan source suggests that it does not.
> > However, Paul's solution is way cleaner than mine, so it's probably
> > moot, at least in this case.
>
> It should be supported. The safe_replace[0] function makes no
> assumptions about what the separator is.
>
> [0]: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/devscripts.git/tree/scripts/uscan.pl?id=bce34b8d7fa410e64c411bd780f8e21603167ae7#n4441
Indeed. There was a fair amount of time spent during the development of
that code to support as many native Perl features as were reasonable and
actually used in watch files at the time (hence the \l etc support).
Regards,
Adam
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