Re: ideologies and whitespace
Re: ideologies and whitespace
- Subject: Re: ideologies and whitespace
- From: Dave Rehring <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 17:28:02 -0800
On 3/29/05 4:33 PM, Markian Hlynka at email@hidden wrote:
> I just had a debate with someone over whether files "should" contain
> spaces in them. I say yes, because it's how people work and it's what
> the space [bar] is FOR. He says no, because it confuses lots of shell
> scripts and other code, and can do bad things like wipe you hard drive!
> :-D
>
> So, in using xcode, and even make, I've rarely hesitated to put spaces
> in _paths, but my source files have always had names with no spaces.
>
> Can xcode compile files... "name with spaces.cc"? Will gcc break? Will
> anything?
>
> Two sides to this question. The first is from the technical point of
> view: Can I do it, will it break, etc
> The other side is idealogical: Should I do it, should I _expect it to
> work, etc.
>
>
> Markian
>
> PS: if there's an apple dev_ideologies list, and you think this is off
> topic, I'll post there instead!
Spaces in paths/filenames [imho]:
-should work seamlessly
-occasionally, for a variety of reasons, don't always work with zero extra
effort
-is not worth spending any time to figure out why there is a problem
I'd rather just delete the space instead of expending any effort on logging
bugs and/or rewriting shell scripts and/or redoing projects. I see zero
upside to using spaces in paths/filenames as part of the build process.
Of course, the applications I build need to support spaces everywhere and
the build system needs to support having spaces within the built product.
Later,
--
David Rehring Psychos do not explode when light hits
VP of Research and Development them, no matter how crazy they are...
Atimi Software, Inc.
www.atimi.com And totally insane guy!
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