Re: texi2dvi: More robust to white spaces

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 23:54:44 +0200
> From: address@hidden (Karl Berry)
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
>     Those platform will probably not have users have white spaces in
>     the directory names.
> 
> Actually, the only significant platform that does not support symlinks
> these days is Windows.  And Windows is also a very likely place where
> users will use whitespace in names.

Exactly.

> However, I had the impression the patch would not cause non-symlink
> platforms to always fail now, so they'd be no worse off than before.
> Was that wrong?  If so, the symlink stuff should probably be made
> conditional to when the name actually includes whitespace.

I'd rather we had a solution that worked on all platforms alike.  If
someone sends me a clear-cut test case, I might try finding time to
work on such a solution.