From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>
Cc: arash@gnu.org, mrsebastianurban@gmail.com, 36357@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#36357: Wrong Ghostscript program name on MS Win
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2020 16:45:35 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <831roffxc0.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87368vevqj.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Tassilo Horn on Wed, 22 Apr 2020 11:05:24 +0200)
> From: Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>
> Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2020 11:05:24 +0200
> Cc: Sebastian Urban <mrsebastianurban@gmail.com>, 36357@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> Another question: You both used executable-find with exe file extension.
> Was that intended? I mean, it makes sure we don't falsely set some
> "gs.bat" or "gs.cmd" which might have nothing to do with GhostScript.
> Is that a real danger? If so, we need the OS distinction again.
It is IME wrong and user-unfriendly to refuse to load foo.bat or
foo.cmd and insist on running foo.exe. The reason is that having a
batch file that shadows a .exe program is the easiest way of
"customizing" programs, like adding default arguments, setting up a
special PATH value, etc. I need to do that quite a lot, especially
when working in fascist domains where the admins think they know
better what I need and what I don't. So I wouldn't like it if Emacs,
of all programs, would disallow me to have a gs64winc.cmd file when
the .exe somehow needs some help to run correctly.
Therefore, my suggestion is to use just "foo" without any extension.
If the user has a foo.bat that is found before foo.exe, it is their
misconfiguration, and they need to fix that locally. However, more
often than not, the user _wants_ the batch file to run instead, and we
shouldn't punish users who know what they are doing on behalf of those
who don't.
Just my $0.02, feel free to disregard.
P.S. This is not Windows-specific, IMO: the same is true on Posix
systems where a shell script can "shadow" a program.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-22 13:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-06-24 16:04 bug#36357: Wrong Ghostscript program name on MS Win Sebastian Urban
2019-07-06 8:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-06 11:29 ` Tassilo Horn
2019-07-06 11:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-06 11:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-18 17:26 ` Sebastian Urban
2020-03-18 18:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-18 19:23 ` Sebastian Urban
2020-04-13 19:10 ` Sebastian Urban
2020-04-20 20:57 ` Arash Esbati
2020-04-21 13:16 ` Arash Esbati
2020-04-21 13:19 ` Tassilo Horn
2020-04-21 13:25 ` Arash Esbati
2020-04-21 17:51 ` Sebastian Urban
2020-04-21 18:34 ` Tassilo Horn
2020-04-21 18:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-21 20:29 ` Arash Esbati
2020-04-22 9:05 ` Tassilo Horn
2020-04-22 10:07 ` Sebastian Urban
2020-04-22 13:00 ` Tassilo Horn
2020-04-22 13:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-22 13:45 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-04-22 14:14 ` Tassilo Horn
2020-04-22 14:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-22 17:29 ` Tassilo Horn
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