Re: toolchain/48534: bogus file names in source tree

[Aleksej Saushev <asau%inbox.ru@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR toolchain/48534; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Aleksej Saushev <asau%inbox.ru@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: toolchain/48534: bogus file names in source tree
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 09:25:47 +0400

 Alistair Crooks <agc%pkgsrc.org@localhost> writes:
 
 > On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 03:55:01AM +0000, Aleksej Saushev wrote:
 >>  > On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 08:03:26AM +0400, Aleksej Saushev wrote:
 >>  >> I think that the source code management system and regular maintainance
 >>  >> scripts ought to be fixed instead.
 >>  >
 >>  > Neither the source code management nor any regular maintaninance scripts
 >>  > run on TNF machines have any problems with the files in question. There
 >>  > is nothing to fix here.
 >>  >
 >>  > However: besides the ones in llvm we have no files with spaces in
 >>  > the repository. This simplifies a lot of ad-hoc tasks for developers
 >>  > (like find . -name ... | xargs rm), which in general need a lot of 
 >> thinking,
 >>  > testing or use of other/more complex tools.
 >>  >
 >>  > Giving this up for no good reason is just very lame.
 >>  
 >>  No, it is not lame in any way. It is important to learn working with
 >>  such files in ad hoc tasks. In particular, we should learn to avoid
 >>  habits of using broken tools like xargs. If we need to improve tools
 >>  in order to achieve that, we ought to improve them rather than run away
 >>  from it. You don't help to improve anything if you force everyone to
 >>  stick to old conventions that support old habits.
 >
 > Aleksej, there is a reason find(1) has a -print0 clause, and xargs(1)
 > has a -0 argument.
 
 Sure, find(1) has "-exec" too. But some other tools do not have
 corresponding features.
 
 > Martin's right, we should keep these tests.
 
 I don't understand who is arguing for what then.
 
 My point is that removing or renaming files just because they have
 spaces in names is stupid. These are not nineties, spaces in file names
 are common, and we ought to get used to that rather.
 
 
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