Re: Bug: cygport fails when the working directory pathname contains spaces

2010-02-10 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 02/10/2010 03:57 PM, Eric Backus wrote: Marco Atzeri yahoo.it> writes: 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. Regards Marco It really doesn't matter to me whether cygport supports filenames w

Re: Bug: cygport fails when the working directory pathname contains spaces

2010-02-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 08:57:29PM +, Eric Backus wrote: >Marco Atzeri yahoo.it> writes: > >> 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. >> >> Regards >> Marco > >It really doesn't matter to me

Re: Bug: cygport fails when the working directory pathname contains spaces

2010-02-10 Thread Eric Backus
Marco Atzeri yahoo.it> writes: > 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. > > Regards > Marco It really doesn't matter to me whether cygport supports filenames with spaces. And it is certainly t

Re: Bug: cygport fails when the working directory pathname contains spaces

2010-01-27 Thread Stephen Grant Brown
Hi All, - Original Message - From: "Nellis, Kenneth" To: Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 1:12 AM Subject: RE: Bug: cygport fails when the working directory pathname contains spaces From: Yaakov (Cygwin/X) Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 04:13 To: cygwin@cygwin.com S

Re: Bug: cygport fails when the working directory pathname contains spaces

2010-01-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 03:12:55AM -0600, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: >On 27/01/2010 02:36, Matthias Andree wrote: >> This isn't acceptable as a generic statement. > >Nor is CCing messages to maintainers: > >http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PPIOSPE > >> If you're unwilling to fix the cygport parts of the b

RE: Bug: cygport fails when the working directory pathname contains spaces

2010-01-27 Thread Marco Atzeri
--- 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 > > > > > > I've been aroun

RE: Bug: cygport fails when the working directory pathname contains spaces

2010-01-27 Thread Nellis, Kenneth
> From: Yaakov (Cygwin/X) > Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 04:13 > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: Bug: cygport fails when the working directory pathname > contains spaces > > On 27/01/2010 02:36, Matthias Andree wrote: > > > If you're unwilling

Re: Bug: cygport fails when the working directory pathname contains spaces

2010-01-27 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 27/01/2010 02:36, Matthias Andree wrote: This isn't acceptable as a generic statement. Nor is CCing messages to maintainers: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PPIOSPE If you're unwilling to fix the cygport parts of the bug, that's fine, but claiming that fixing it were generally not worthwhile

Re: Bug: cygport fails when the working directory pathname contains spaces

2010-01-27 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 27.01.2010, 03:09 Uhr, schrieb Steven Monai: Hi folks, Consider this command line transcript: -- $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-5.1 hostname 1.7.1(0.218/5/3) 2009-12-07 11:48 i686 Cygwin $ cygcheck -c cygport Cygwin Package Information Package Version

Re: Bug: cygport fails when the working directory pathname contains spaces

2010-01-27 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 27.01.2010, 09:13 Uhr, schrieb Yaakov (Cygwin/X) : On 26/01/2010 23:38, Steven Monai wrote: Imagine if a program like 'cp' failed because the current working directory has a pathname that contains spaces. You'd probably agree with me that 'cp' had a rather serious flaw, wouldn't you? cyg

Re: Bug: cygport fails when the working directory pathname contains spaces

2010-01-27 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 26/01/2010 23:38, Steven Monai wrote: Imagine if a program like 'cp' failed because the current working directory has a pathname that contains spaces. You'd probably agree with me that 'cp' had a rather serious flaw, wouldn't you? cygport is not 'cp'. cygport is a shell script, as are confi

Re: Bug: cygport fails when the working directory pathname contains spaces

2010-01-26 Thread Steven Monai
On 2010/01/26 8:42 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: > On 26/01/2010 20:09, Steven Monai wrote: >> $ pwd >> /home/steve/My Documents/bglibs > > This is not a bug in cygport per se. Spaces in paths is just a bad idea > when you're dealing with shell scripts and you will find all sorts of > breakage as

Re: Bug: cygport fails when the working directory pathname contains spaces

2010-01-26 Thread Lee Rothstein
Steven Monai wrote: Hi folks, Consider this command line transcript: -- $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-5.1 hostname 1.7.1(0.218/5/3) 2009-12-07 11:48 i686 Cygwin $ cygcheck -c cygport Cygwin Package Information Package VersionStatus cygport

Re: Bug: cygport fails when the working directory pathname contains spaces

2010-01-26 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 26/01/2010 20:09, Steven Monai wrote: $ pwd /home/steve/My Documents/bglibs This is not a bug in cygport per se. Spaces in paths is just a bad idea when you're dealing with shell scripts and you will find all sorts of breakage as a result (as has already been well documented on this list)

Bug: cygport fails when the working directory pathname contains spaces

2010-01-26 Thread Steven Monai
Hi folks, Consider this command line transcript: -- $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-5.1 hostname 1.7.1(0.218/5/3) 2009-12-07 11:48 i686 Cygwin $ cygcheck -c cygport Cygwin Package Information Package VersionStatus cygport 0.9.80-1 O