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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: File naming conventions
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Miles Bader |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: File naming conventions |
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Tue, 26 Oct 2004 02:49:56 -0400 |
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On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 04:17:18PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> > This is perhaps harder than it should be because tla's output escaping
> > format seems very complicated -- e.g., unicode encoding etc -- and it
>
> Unicode encoding is actually a good thing. It would indeed be nice to
> have a tla-encoding filter/munger to convert to "xargs" format. Keeps
> everything nice and orthogonal etc...
Not really. Tla _already has to do it_ -- it has to interact with the
file-system (and support the "--unescaped" option) already, so it can't
avoid having coding conversion of some sort (to the extent that tla needs
it) built-in.
An external tool could certainly duplicate everything in tla, but what on
earth is the point?
The output escaping used by tla currently addressed two problems:
(1) It avoids conflicts between filenames (and other user strings) and the
output formats used by tla (white-space separated fields etc).
(2) It addresses the non-ascii character issue.
(1) is a limited problem, and reasonably easy to work around and support.
Escapes added to solve this problem are easy to decode, and I can deal with
them. (2) is much more difficult problem, and I certainly don't want (or
need) to deal with it if tla _already has the code to do it_.
Now, if there were an `xxargs' that decoded tla's escaping, presumably _it_
could convert from the current "fully-escaped" format to "half-escaped"
format, and I could use that. But would simply be a re-implementation of
functionality already present in tla.
If such an external tool _did_ exist, as a scriptwriter, can I rely on this
tool being present if tla is? Does it become an extra dependency?
-Miles
--
o The existentialist, not having a pillow, goes everywhere with the book by
Sullivan, _I am going to spit on your graves_.
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: File naming conventions, (continued)
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: File naming conventions, Jason McCarty, 2004/10/21
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: File naming conventions, Zenaan Harkness, 2004/10/21
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: File naming conventions, mlh, 2004/10/22
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: File naming conventions, Thomas Lord, 2004/10/25
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: File naming conventions, Zenaan Harkness, 2004/10/26
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: File naming conventions, Thomas Lord, 2004/10/25
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: File naming conventions, Miles Bader, 2004/10/25
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: File naming conventions, Zenaan Harkness, 2004/10/26
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: File naming conventions,
Miles Bader <=
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: File naming conventions, Zenaan Harkness, 2004/10/26
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: File naming conventions, Miles Bader, 2004/10/26
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: File naming conventions, Zenaan Harkness, 2004/10/26
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Re: File naming conventions, Nikolai Weibull, 2004/10/26
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: File naming conventions, Thomas Lord, 2004/10/27
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: File naming conventions, Zenaan Harkness, 2004/10/27
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: File naming conventions, Matthew Dempsky, 2004/10/27
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: File naming conventions, Miles Bader, 2004/10/28
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: File naming conventions, Zenaan Harkness, 2004/10/28
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: File naming conventions, Miles Bader, 2004/10/28