Re: whitespaces in filenames [was: bug in $(wildcard) on Windows?]

[Boris Kolpackov]

"Paul D. Smith" <address@hidden> writes:

>   * A new method for encoding strings would need to be found.  Maybe
>     something like $[...] where "..." would be encoded.  This part is
>     tricky and needs to be considered carefully.

Is this really necessary? Can't we just say that if someone wants say
a space be interpreted as space they just escape it, e.g.:

my\ file\ full\ of\ spaces: dollar\$ign
        ...

Make "preprocessor" will translate those into special chars when
makefile is read and translate them back when such strings are
passed outside.

> There is a huge amount of work to get this to happen, though, and the
> interface for the encoding needs to be thought out.

Also it would be nice to think about how this feature is going to
play with guile (i.e., could there will be an overlap).


-boris