Re: Windows PEAR installation bug

Hi Y'all: On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 12:18:47AM +0200, Arnaud Limbourg wrote: > Greg Beaver <greg@chiaraquartet.net> > > > > Can someone fix the PEAR installer to check for spaces in the paths and > > die gracefully with a "PEAR doesn't support spaces in the pathname", or > > add support for spaces in a pathname? > > Good idea to add that or die gracefully. Bad idea. The good idea is to handle path names with spaces. Spaces are legitimate on nearly all file systems. PEAR should process them correctly. The cheap copout is to die gracefully while saying something like "when calling PEAR installer using file names with spaces in them, please use 8.3 name conversion, such as 'progra~1'." Enjoy, --Dan -- FREE scripts that make web and database programming easier http://www.analysisandsolutions.com/software/ T H E A N A L Y S I S A N D S O L U T I O N S C O M P A N Y 4015 7th Ave #4AJ, Brooklyn NY v: 718-854-0335 f: 718-854-0409