Le Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 09:50:09AM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit : > > 1) DEP 5 and directory/file names with spaces > (http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2009/06/msg00155.html) > > My summary is that the participants were quite divided on whether separating > the list of files by spaces or by commas. Space-separation took advantage, as > the resulting list can be pasted directly in a shell. The escaping syntax was > glob(7) at the time, but it allows patterns that the shell will not expand, so > the two wildcards * and ? were proposed. My personal feeling is that more > complete syntax, like allowing shell quotes, did not make it because no > participant had patience or energy left for moving this forward. But ‘shell > pastability’ is I think the conclusion.
While reading the DEP again, I realised that our current format is not always directly pastable to the shell, as the wildcards are allowed to match directory separators, so that ‘*/Makefile.in’ can match at any depth. There is a small number of packages using that feature, with Makefile.in in most of the cases. It looks like that we can not have both conveniences at the same time. I think that it is one more argument to consider revisiting the current syntax in a later evolution of the format, but I think that we should accumulate more experience before that. Have a nice week-end, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120204024339.ga4...@merveille.plessy.net