Re: quotearg.c's shell_quoting_style and MinGW
Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]>
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> From: Bruno Haible <[email protected]> > Cc: Paul Eggert <[email protected]>, Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]>, [email protected] > Bcc: [email protected] > Date: Sun, 06 May 2012 20:33:05 +0200 > > Whereas for my proposal I see the following drawbacks: > > * The programmer has to explicitly write code with #if for native Windows. This drawback could perhaps be avoided if, instead having an "ms_shell" style in addition to the current "Posix shell" style, we use a different set of styles: a "shell command-line argument" quoting style and a "file-name" quoting style. The former would be used for producing shell commands, and will use platform-dependent quoting, similar to the patch I sent. The latter would be used for quoting file names which are not meant to be passed to a shell, but rather written as part of a program's output; that latter style will produce identical results on all platforms. Would this be okay?