Re: NonGNU ELPA: Conditions for accepting a potential new package 'rmsbolt' ?

[Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> I can't help much more on if/when/how to convert an internal filename
> into one that works in a win32 shell, 'cause I have no experience with
> that.  AFAICT most ELisp code doesn't do anything special for that
> (whereas they sometimes do such things for Tramp purposes), so I'd
> naively expect that it "just works".

Inside of Emacs, but does it also handle argument when starting a
process with some path?

>>> Also I think `shell-quote-argument` should be applied to most parts of
>>> `rmsbolt--demangle-command`.  This function is also odd in that it
>>> calls `rmsbolt--convert-file-name-to-system-type` on the files
>>> of the demangler but not those of the `mv`.
>>
>> IIUC shell-quote-argument cannot be used,
>
> Of course it can.  You can't just replace the #'identity with
> #'shell-quote-argument, indeed, but still `shell-quote-argument` should
> be used on *most* parts that appear in the function.

True, my comment was not phrased carefully.

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	Philip Kaludercic on peregrine