Re: [Gnu-arch-users] =tagging-method and non-portable filenames

[Douglas Philips]

On Thursday, Sep 4, 2003, at 04:28 US/Eastern, Ethan Benson, replying 
to Joe Osborn wrote:
> whitespace in filenames is absolutly forbidden in arch.  removing this
> restriction is not at trivial as you think.  reference the list 
> archives.
>
> > find . [_=a-zA-Z0-9[:space:][:punct:]].*
> >
> > works fine.  Is the limitation on the usage of non-portable file names
> > a basic assumption of Arch?  Is there a workaround?  Am I just a fool?
> >
> > This is equally not-working in larch and tla.  Any suggestions?
>
> rename your files to not include whitespace.

This is going to be nearly a show-stopper for Mac OS/X users.
I understand tla's legacy, but that is irrelevant to adoption by Mac 
OS/X users.
I am one too.
I can't use tla for this reason too.
Oh, right, if you can't get arch-id/arch-tag lines into existing files, 
what makes you think telling projects to rename their files will get 
arch/tla any more users? Sheesh, just make 'em all 8.3 filenames and 
"GET OVER IT" ("Th-Th-That's a joke, son" --F.L.)
(I haven't had the time to try tla passed building 1.0, I've been too 
busy deleting OT Emacs emails ;-))


Just my "Oh well, I guess I can't use tla YET" buck two-fitty,
        <D\'gou