[Gnu-arch-users] Re: {arch} directory

[Neil Stevens]

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On Wednesday September 24, 2003 2:15 pm, Tom Lord wrote:
>     > From: Neil Stevens <address@hidden>
>     >
>     > > But there's lots of reasons to want to have all kinds of "funky
>     > > file names" -- the file system is, after all, a form of
>     > > database.   File names are a primary key for that database.  
>     > > Limiting the space of reasonably usable keys is lame.
>     >
>     > So when will tla stop being lame and start supporting spaces in
>     > file names?
>     >
>     > :-)
> :
> :-)
>
> The sketch of work needed for that has been repeated already N+1 times
> -- nobody's itch is bad enough, I guess -- it's just something fun to
> gripe about or predict the end of the world about.
>
> I suppose I could put a price tag on it....

Though I wasn't being serious above, I'll bite.

Isn't there some sort of bug repository on Savannah?  Perhaps the common 
complaints should be listed there* along with pointers to relevant mailing 
list threads, and your prices for implementing them.

* Isn't the passive voice wonderful?  Though I do see a need for 
gnupg-signed commits, multi-user archives, and more permissive filename 
support, right now I haven't run into any of these problems in my own arch 
use.  So right now I just can't commit to working toward any of these 
things, but when the time comes I think that I'd want to see the price 
list, or at least the mailing list threads where the features were 
discussed before.  

- -- 
Neil Stevens - address@hidden

"Now and in the future, we will support our troops" -- George Walker Bush
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