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Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:07:57 +0000 (GMT)
From: Marco Atzeri <marco_atzeri AT yahoo DOT it>
Subject: RE: Bug: cygport fails when the working directory pathname contains   spaces
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--- Mer 27/1/10, Nellis, Kenneth ha scritto:

> > From: Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 04:13
> > Subject: Re: Bug: cygport fails when the working
> directory pathname
> > contains spaces
> >=20
> >=20
> > I've been around long enough to know that many (most?)
> people's
> > expectations about Cygwin are generally
> incorrect.=A0 As for those who
> > generally use cygport, namely package maintainers,
> they obviously DON'T
> > USE SPACES because I can't remember such a complaint
> before.
> >=20
> > > I'd seriously ask you to reconsider.
> >=20
> > And if this were bugzilla I would be deciding between
> closing this
> > NOTABUG or WONTFIX. :-)
> >=20
> >=20
> > Yaakov
>=20
> Despite not having a dog in this fight, I feel compelled to
> go on
> record to support Mathias and the OP that this is an
> obvious defect
> in cygports that ought to be fixed. I think an appropriate
> sanity
> check would be on a decision "to force cygport not to run
> in such
> paths" instead of fixing the defect.
> --Ken Nellis
>=20

Dear Ken,
if you don't like cygport you can modify your copy by yourself,
as Mathias can do, and Yaakov is free to modify his source=20
as he prefers.

As one of the package maintainer, with very very few=20
packages compared to Yaakov
(http://cygwin.com/cygwin-pkg-maint)=20
I have no problem with this not-existent bug.

Don't use filename with a space inside is a WELL KNOWN
rule of any UNIX system.
If MS made a stupid decision, we should not follow it.=20

Regards
Marco






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