(The funny thing is that I'm known among my colleagues for being Linux-biased and quite adverse to MS).

Sincerely, I'd not consider the fact that the default installation directory has a space a flaw in the OS. Maybe my point of view is biased by the fact that there are *lots* of flaws in that OS IMHO, and this forces me to consider this a non-flaw.

Moreover, I'm not a Win32 developer, but I don't see the difference between Win32 and Unix for this particular issue. In my understanding, you have to escape/quote stuff with spaces in both worlds.

I agree, the "Program Files" choice was particularly ill-minded, forcing you to take into account paths with spaces all the time (on the contrary, "/usr" or "/usr/local" are more developer-friendly). OTOH, I generally always take into consideration that there may be spaces in all shell variables I use in Linux, paths included, and I tax myself with extra quoting just to remain on the safe side. I'd do it in a batch file as well, without considering this an MS-related tax.

To conclude, in at least one field things work better here in Italy: our default installation directory is "C:\Programmi" :)

Flavio (perl -e 'print(scalar(reverse("\nti.xittelop\@oivalf")))')

Don't fool yourself.

In reply to Re^4: The Evil Embedded Space by polettix
in thread The Evil Embedded Space by Intrepid

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