From: Guillaume Marcais <guslist@...>
Date: 2004-04-23T19:28:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Problem Module tar.gz for windows,

> Hmm, never run into this problem. But it is really bad that the unix
> guys still can't write programs that works with spaces in the path
> name. I miss a enquote/dequote feature that escapes files for the
> shell. And the file path handling in ruby is also terrible. You never
> know if it is working, if the file is passed to system() you must use
> windows convention, on the other hand a lot of packages parses the
> string only with "/" characters. May these programmers burn in hell.

Before going to hell, is redemption achievable? Do you have a set of 
recommendations or guide lines to handle file paths in a friendly 
manner on all platform?

Guillaume.