From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Benjamin Riefenstahl Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 18:33:25 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <001401c478de$908a92d0$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <1091508072.20683.201576204@webmail.messagingengine.com> <4111491A.4090601@runestig.com> <4111D8D4.1040506@runestig.com> <1091693906.8538.201741376@webmail.messagingengine.com> <001d01c47afa$c1f5f170$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <003e01c48946$a8ebfad0$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <1093325865.12665.202923369@webmail.messagingengine.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1093365257 23157 80.91.224.253 (24 Aug 2004 16:34:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 16:34:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Lennart Borgman , Emacs Devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 24 18:33:58 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BzeFC-0008T8-00 for ; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 18:33:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BzeJi-000238-2Z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 12:38:38 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BzeJc-000232-0i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 12:38:32 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BzeJZ-00022q-OM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 12:38:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BzeJZ-00022n-M7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 12:38:29 -0400 Original-Received: from [193.28.100.151] (helo=mail.epost.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BzeEb-0004c5-K1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 12:33:21 -0400 Original-Received: from seneca.benny.turtle-trading.net.epost.de (193.99.153.30) by mail.epost.de (7.1.026.1) id 4129BFEF0003C37D; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 18:33:12 +0200 Original-To: "Dhruva Krishnamurthy" In-Reply-To: <1093325865.12665.202923369@webmail.messagingengine.com> (Dhruva Krishnamurthy's message of "Tue, 24 Aug 2004 11:07:45 +0530") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1001 (Gnus v5.10.1) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:26444 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:26444 Hi Dhruva, > On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 21:21:04 +0200, "Lennart Borgman" > said: >> Which one would you prefer? What about using "c:\program files"? "Dhruva Krishnamurthy" writes: > Folder names with spaces are always a nightmare in scripts. I'd phrase it differently: Folder names with spaces tend to expose bugs in shell scripts. As folders like that are rather common on desktop systems, it's a good idea to install in such a folder, so that these bugs get smoked out as early as possible. benny