[Pkg-bazaar-commits] ./bzr/unstable r642: - notes on patches for Windows

[Martin Pool]

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revno: 642
committer: Martin Pool <mbp at sourcefrog.net>
timestamp: Fri 2005-06-10 12:41:06 +1000
message:
  - notes on patches for Windows
modified:
  TODO
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=== modified file 'TODO'
--- a/TODO	2005-06-06 11:55:02 +0000
+++ b/TODO	2005-06-10 02:41:06 +0000
@@ -103,6 +103,15 @@
 
 * Statcache should possibly map all file paths to / separators
 
+* quotefn doubles all backslashes on Windows; this is probably not the
+  best thing to do.  What would be a better way to safely represent
+  filenames?  Perhaps we could doublequote things containing spaces,
+  on the principle that filenames containing quotes are unlikely?
+  Nice for humans; less good for machine parsing.
+
+* Patches should probably use only forward slashes, even on Windows,
+  otherwise Unix patch can't apply them. (?) 
+
 
 Medium things
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