From: TRANS Date: 2005-09-27T01:26:53+09:00 Subject: Re: Finally an answer to my RubyGems question and some small suggestions On 9/26/05, Austin Ziegler wrote: > On 9/26/05, TRANS wrote: > > On 9/26/05, Austin Ziegler wrote: > > > On 9/26/05, TRANS wrote: > > > > Do you think, while we're at it, some code can be put in there to deal > > > > with non-cross platform punctuation in file names? > > > I do not believe that this is a good thing to solve, personally, and > > > think that alternative solutions for Nano's problems are better. > > Well, it NOT just a Nano problem. It IS a cross-platform problem. This > > can effect any project that uses a file name with certain punctuation. > > Sure. But I don't think that most people would *want* to use such > punctuation in their function names. I think it's a Nano problem > because you're wanting to allow individual function specification. It > makes sense, but I don't think that it's a general-case problem. (It > never would have dawned on me to use *, ?, or a couple of other > characters in any filename that I would require from Ruby. This may be > because I do a *lot* of cross-platform work, but I just wouldn't ever > do that. I think it's something that could be discouraged.) Well, you are probably right --simply b/c there probably is no really good solution from this end. The real solution is to modernize the file systems themselves --personally, it boogles my mind that we still use .xxx in a filename for file type. > I'd rather see built-in support for loading from .zip or .tar first > (unfortunately, we can't really choose .rar as a filename, as it's > already an archive type). Intersting. What is that good for, embedded systems? What about .ra ? Also I think the first priority should be DATADIR. Thanks, T.