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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Feature suggestion: "tla inventory -0"
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Brian May |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Feature suggestion: "tla inventory -0" |
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Sun, 28 Dec 2003 10:51:01 +1100 |
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On Thu, Dec 25, 2003 at 12:27:17PM -0800, Tom Lord wrote:
> So far as I know, the choices basically come down to:
>
> ~ use 0 specially
>
> losses: not terminal or editor friendly,
> can't handle 0 in fields
>
> wins: GNU xargs and GNU tar support it
>
> ~ use a quotation syntax (which also then has to include escapes)
> to delimite fields with some kind of quote mark
>
> losses: whitespace-based field separation fails,
> tools need to translate fields for many operations
>
> wins: pick the string syntax of your favorite scripting language
> terminal/editor-friendly
>
> ~ use an escape syntax without delimiters to map all strings into
> strings of graphical characters
>
> losses: tools need to translate fields for many operations
>
> wins: whitespace-based field separation works,
> terminal/editor-friendly
>
>
> Of these, I think I'm mostly inclined towards the last one (but see
> below).
Initially we started of discussing a "tla inventory -0" option.
However, we seem to have changed to discussing "how should tla store the
filenames internally?". For this purpose, why not use an existing
syntax, eg. the one used to represent non-standard characters in URLs?
I think it should still be possible to have a -0 option for tla
regardless of how arch stores filenames, for instance in change-sets.
--
Brian May <address@hidden>
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Feature suggestion: "tla inventory -0", (continued)
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Feature suggestion: "tla inventory -0", Andrew Suffield, 2003/12/25
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Feature suggestion: "tla inventory -0", Florian Weimer, 2003/12/26
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Feature suggestion: "tla inventory -0", Jan Hudec, 2003/12/27
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Feature suggestion: "tla inventory -0", Tom Lord, 2003/12/27
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Feature suggestion: "tla inventory -0", Florian Weimer, 2003/12/27
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Feature suggestion: "tla inventory -0", Tom Lord, 2003/12/27
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Feature suggestion: "tla inventory -0", Colin Walters, 2003/12/27
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Feature suggestion: "tla inventory -0", Florian Weimer, 2003/12/28
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Feature suggestion: "tla inventory -0", Tom Lord, 2003/12/28
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Feature suggestion: "tla inventory -0",
Brian May <=