[Lazarus] [fpc-pascal] Free Pascal 2.4.0 released

Florian Klaempfl florian at freepascal.org
Sat Jan 2 20:02:21 CET 2010


Doug Chamberlin schrieb:
> Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
>> 2010/1/2 Doug Chamberlin <dougchamberlin at earthlink.net>:
>>> I ran into a problem because the directory I was installing from
>>> contained
>>> an embedded space in the name.
>>
>> I'm just amazed that such issues still come up!  Just about very file
>> system being used in today's OSes can handle spaces in file and
>> directory names. Applications should really KNOW that they must be
>> able to handle such cases.
> 
> To be fair, it is a shell script and parsing can be troublesome when
> programming BASH. But it still should be fixed. Tracker #15454
> 

I think that directory names with spaces are still very uncommon on unix.




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