Spaces in filenames


Re: Spaces in filenames
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Travis Cobbs Wrote:My proposed change to the spec would be to remove the following sentence:

LDraw Specification Wrote:For reasons of cross-platform and cross-(programming) language portability, the use of white space characters (such as space and tab) in filenames is strongly discouraged.

Agree.

Travis Cobbs Wrote:Furthermore, the sentence following the one above would be changed to the following:

LDraw Specification Wrote:Special characters, such as &, #, |, and ?, should be avoided as they may also cause cross-platform issues and create problems when used in URLs.

Agree, for the sake of expediency.

Travis Cobbs Wrote:In addition to the above, I also feel we should codify MLCad's behavior, since it appears to be the de-facto standard. This can be done by adding the following sentence to the end of that paragraph in the spec:

Proposed LDraw Specification Addition Wrote:Furthermore, filenames must not contain leading or trailing white space characters.

However, if there's any disagreement about the above at all, then I think we should vote on the first two changes immediately, and temporarily table discussion of leading and trailing whitespace in the same way I'm proposing we temporarily table discussion of Roland's point.

Recommend temporary tabling this part while we vote on the whitespace thing above, then re-address immediately thereafter in a separate discussion.

Allen
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Spaces in filenames - by Travis Cobbs - 2011-11-15, 17:29
Re: Spaces in filenames - by Roland Melkert - 2011-11-15, 19:52
Re: Spaces in filenames - by Willy Tschager - 2011-11-23, 16:09
Re: Spaces in filenames - by Roland Melkert - 2011-11-23, 19:18
Re: Spaces in filenames - by Willy Tschager - 2011-11-26, 20:55
Re: Spaces in filenames - by Allen Smith - 2011-11-28, 1:51
Re: Spaces in filenames - by Roland Melkert - 2011-11-28, 19:44
Re: Spaces in filenames - by Willy Tschager - 2011-11-29, 20:50
Re: Spaces in filenames - by Roland Melkert - 2011-11-29, 21:06
Re: Spaces in filenames - by Travis Cobbs - 2011-11-29, 22:06
Re: Spaces in filenames - by Willy Tschager - 2011-11-15, 20:39
Re: Spaces in filenames - by Allen Smith - 2011-11-16, 3:41
Re: Spaces in filenames - by Chris Dee - 2011-11-16, 6:32
Re: Spaces in filenames - by Willy Tschager - 2011-11-21, 16:03
Re: Spaces in filenames - by Roland Melkert - 2011-11-21, 17:51
Re: Spaces in filenames - by Travis Cobbs - 2011-12-01, 22:19
Re: Spaces in filenames - by Roland Melkert - 2011-12-01, 23:16
Re: Spaces in filenames - by Allen Smith - 2011-12-02, 15:57

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