Re: avoid space in path names
Re: avoid space in path names
- Subject: Re: avoid space in path names
- From: Stefan Werner <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 23:16:32 +0100
You're right. It would be nice if Xcode quoted paths that I drop
in. But in this case, I didn't drag the folder in. I typed it in
by hand. In this case, it's my responsibility to quote things
properly, not Xcode's.
Is there any reason why Xcode should not put quotation marks around
that either? Or yet better, find a way of talking to the compiler
that does not involve null-terminated sequences of 7 bit characters?
CFURL maybe?
I agree completely. (My comment about the "$%^$* users" was
facisious.) But, we aren't just any humans. We (the people
reading this list) are the programmers that tell the computers how
to adapt to humans.
If we (the programmers) can't be bothered to do the right thing,
There should be only right things to begin with - forgiveness is
usually listed as one of the golden rules of UI design. (Especially
in conjunction with the name Macintosh - see http://www.acm.org/pubs/
cacm/AUG96/antimac.htm)
if all we do is the "quick and dirty port of Unix programs" (which
would have broken even on Unix if spaces had been used in the Unix
path names) then we deserve what we get. It's up to all of us to
"do the right thing" to make it easier for the "users" of the world.
Programmers are users too, and the command line is a UI. Gcc should
be as user-friendly as an iPod and there is no reason why it
shouldn't be.
-Stefan
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