[rt.cpan.org #80026] LIB is being in correctly quoted when using more than one lib path

Fri Oct 05 21:56:10 2012: Request 80026 was acted upon.
Transaction: Correspondence added by SISYPHUS
       Queue: Inline
     Subject: LIB is being in correctly quoted when using more than one lib path
   Broken in: 0.48, 0.48_01, 0.48_02, 0.49, 0.49_01, 0.49_02, 0.50, 0.50_01, 0.50_02
    Severity: Important
       Owner: Nobody
  Requestors: [email protected]
      Status: new
 Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=80026 >


On Fri Oct 05 11:23:15 2012, JCLEMENTS wrote:
 
> I looked into the source and it looks like the quote_space subroutine 
> (C.pm line 84) is quoting the entire INC
> line("-I/opt/src/Bio-HMM-Logo-0.01/src/src
> -I/opt/src/Bio-HMM-Logo-0.01/src/easel") if I have more than one path. 

Thanks for the report, Jody.
I take it that if, in line 84, you replace "quote_space($value)" with
"$value", then everything is ok with 0.50 ?

The point of quote_space() was to (help) accommodate those who want to
put things in directories whose names contain white space (eg C:/Program
Files/).
It's a very poor situation, indeed, that in trying to accommodate insane
(and irritating) behaviour, a completely sane practice has been broken -
and I'll release a new version of Inline once I decide how to fix this.

I guess quote_space() needs to be able to distinguish between (insane)
spaces that are part of a directory name, and (sane) spaces that act as
a path separator ... but I haven't yet looked closely at this.

Cheers,
Rob