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Re: texi2dvi: fix support for whitespace in working directory


From: Gavin Smith
Subject: Re: texi2dvi: fix support for whitespace in working directory
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 17:06:06 +0100

On 27 April 2016 at 08:53, Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> wrote:
> Mattias Andrée <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Whether my patch fixes an error in texi2dvi or works around
>> a bug in bash's sh is unimportant. The patch is tiny, does
>> not decrease maintainability
>
> Adding unnecessary quotes without justification decreases
> maintainability because everyone who looks at it has to think hard about
> why the useless quotes are there.

That's my feeling as well. I'd only support adding these quotes if
they work around a bug in an important shell. Otherwise, they are
distracting.



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