fix to spaces in path
| From: | Greg Beaver | Date: | Sat, 02 Aug 2003 18:27:59 +0000 |
| Subject: | fix to spaces in path | ||
| Groups: | php.pear.dev php.pear.general php.pear.qa | ||
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This is your gadfly speaking.
I'd like to commit the patch that fixes the spaces in path issue.
Perhaps a show of hands in favor of fixing this problem would help move
things along? Here is a list of the problems with spaces in paths that
are solved by this fix:
- pear install to a subdirectory of "C:\Program Files" will not work.
"C:\Program Files" is the most commonly used install directory on windows
- pear package will not work in any subdirectory containing spaces, and
will create and possibly overwrite folders of the same name as the
suffix. So if you have 2 directories "C:\Web" and C:\Web Pages", the
pear package command will overwrite the contents of C:\Web and fail with
a cryptic error message about not being able to copy a random file with
.tmp pre-pended to it
- the new publicweb role which is proposed will not allow installation
to "C:\Program Files\Apache Group", the default Apache location on windows.
backwards compatibility issues: none - this patch is internal, and uses
pre-programmed features of the same functions to do the job.
API issues: none - no changes are visible to private or public
functions, no other code need be changed.
All in favor of fixing these bugs please +1, this will at least start
the ball rolling.
For those wishing to test or review this fix, I've attached the patch
Greg