Re: [PATCH 04/40] Windows: Use the Windows style PATH separator ';'.

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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@...>

To: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@...>

Cc: <git@...>, Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@...>

Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/40] Windows: Use the Windows style PATH separator ';'.

Date: Thursday, February 28, 2008 - 9:09 pm

Hi,

On Thu, 28 Feb 2008, Johannes Sixt wrote:

quoted text> On Thursday 28 February 2008 10:25, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > > +#ifdef __MINGW32__
> > > +		strbuf_addch(out, ';');
> > > +#else
> > >  		strbuf_addch(out, ':');
> > > +#endif
> >
> > Why not adding a PATH_SEPARATOR #define?
> 
> Because IMO it is obfuscating:
> 
> 1. When you read through the code and see PATH_SEPARATOR, you still have
> to go look how it's defined. Why? Because you always will ask: Is this 
> about ':' vs. ';' or '/' vs. '\'?
> 
> 2. When you look for where ":" or ";" are treated, you'll end up at the
> #define. Then you need an extra step to search for PATH_SEPARATOR.

IMO these are not good arguments.  If they were, we could not typedef 
size_t and socklen_t, either.

Ciao,
Dscho

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Re: [PATCH 00/40] MinGW port, Johannes Sixt, (Sun Mar 2, 5:20 pm)

Re: [PATCH 00/40] MinGW port, Johannes Schindelin, (Sun Mar 2, 6:07 pm)

Re: [PATCH 00/40] MinGW port, Johannes Sixt, (Mon Mar 3, 2:34 pm)

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[PATCH 06/40] Windows: Implement a wrapper of the open() fun..., Johannes Sixt, (Wed Feb 27, 2:54 pm)

[PATCH 05/40] Windows: Strip ".exe" from the program name., Johannes Sixt, (Wed Feb 27, 2:54 pm)

[PATCH 04/40] Windows: Use the Windows style PATH separator ..., Johannes Sixt, (Wed Feb 27, 2:54 pm)

Re: [PATCH 04/40] Windows: Use the Windows style PATH separa..., Paolo Bonzini, (Thu Feb 28, 5:25 am)

Re: [PATCH 04/40] Windows: Use the Windows style PATH separa..., Johannes Sixt, (Thu Feb 28, 4:43 pm)

Re: [PATCH 04/40] Windows: Use the Windows style PATH separa..., Johannes Schindelin, (Thu Feb 28, 9:09 pm)

Re: [PATCH 04/40] Windows: Use the Windows style PATH separa..., Paolo Bonzini, (Fri Feb 29, 3:57 am)

Re: [PATCH 04/40] Windows: Use the Windows style PATH separa..., Johannes Schindelin, (Fri Feb 29, 8:19 am)

Re: [PATCH 04/40] Windows: Use the Windows style PATH separa..., Paolo Bonzini, (Fri Feb 29, 8:45 am)

Re: [PATCH 04/40] Windows: Use the Windows style PATH separa..., Johannes Schindelin, (Fri Feb 29, 8:59 am)

[PATCH 40/40] compat/pread.c: Add foward decl to fix warning, Johannes Sixt, (Wed Feb 27, 2:55 pm)

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[PATCH 39/40] Windows: Fix ntohl() related warnings about pr..., Johannes Sixt, (Wed Feb 27, 2:55 pm)

[PATCH 03/40] Add target architecture MinGW., Johannes Sixt, (Wed Feb 27, 2:54 pm)

Re: [PATCH 03/40] Add target architecture MinGW., Johannes Schindelin, (Thu Feb 28, 8:05 am)

Re: [PATCH 03/40] Add target architecture MinGW., Paolo Bonzini, (Thu Feb 28, 8:57 am)

Re: [PATCH 03/40] Add target architecture MinGW., Johannes Schindelin, (Thu Feb 28, 10:56 am)

Re: [PATCH 03/40] Add target architecture MinGW., Johannes Sixt, (Wed Mar 5, 5:21 pm)

Re: [PATCH 03/40] Add target architecture MinGW., Johannes Sixt, (Tue Mar 11, 5:30 pm)

Re: [PATCH 03/40] Add target architecture MinGW., Johannes Schindelin, (Tue Mar 11, 7:28 pm)

Re: [PATCH 03/40] Add target architecture MinGW., Johannes Sixt, (Wed Mar 12, 6:59 pm)

Re: [PATCH 03/40] Add target architecture MinGW., Johannes Schindelin, (Wed Mar 12, 7:06 pm)

Re: [PATCH 03/40] Add target architecture MinGW., Johannes Schindelin, (Wed Mar 5, 6:18 pm)

Re: [PATCH 03/40] Add target architecture MinGW., Johannes Sixt, (Thu Mar 6, 4:38 pm)

Re: [PATCH 03/40] Add target architecture MinGW., Junio C Hamano, (Wed Mar 5, 6:22 pm)

Re: [PATCH 03/40] Add target architecture MinGW., Johannes Schindelin, (Wed Mar 5, 6:28 pm)

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Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add strbuf_initf(), Jeff King, (Thu Mar 6, 8:09 am)

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add strbuf_initf(), Reece Dunn, (Thu Mar 6, 5:03 am)

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add strbuf_initf(), Johannes Schindelin, (Thu Mar 6, 6:55 am)

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Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add strbuf_initf(), Johannes Schindelin, (Thu Mar 6, 8:52 am)

[PATCH 1/2 v2] Add strbuf_vaddf(), use it in strbuf_addf(), ..., Johannes Schindelin, (Thu Mar 6, 12:29 pm)

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Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add strbuf_initf(), Kristian , (Thu Mar 6, 2:18 pm)

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add strbuf_initf(), Johannes Schindelin, (Thu Mar 6, 2:26 pm)

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add strbuf_initf(), Mike Hommey, (Thu Mar 6, 3:10 pm)

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add strbuf_initf(), Kristian , (Thu Mar 6, 2:35 pm)

Re: [PATCH 03/40] Add target architecture MinGW., Junio C Hamano, (Wed Mar 5, 6:51 pm)

Re: [PATCH 03/40] Add target architecture MinGW., Johannes Schindelin, (Wed Mar 5, 8:11 pm)

Re: [PATCH 03/40] Add target architecture MinGW., Johannes Sixt, (Thu Feb 28, 4:40 pm)

Re: [PATCH 03/40] Add target architecture MinGW., Johannes Schindelin, (Thu Feb 28, 9:07 pm)

Re: [PATCH 03/40] Add target architecture MinGW., Johannes Sixt, (Fri Feb 29, 5:03 pm)

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[PATCH 30/40] Turn builtin_exec_path into a function., Johannes Sixt, (Wed Feb 27, 2:54 pm)

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[PATCH 02/40] Compile some programs only conditionally., Johannes Sixt, (Wed Feb 27, 2:54 pm)

Re: [PATCH 02/40] Compile some programs only conditionally., Johannes Schindelin, (Thu Feb 28, 7:57 am)

Re: [PATCH 02/40] Compile some programs only conditionally., Johannes Sixt, (Thu Feb 28, 4:30 pm)

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Re: [PATCH 02/40] Compile some programs only conditionally., Johannes Sixt, (Fri Feb 29, 4:58 pm)

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[PATCH 20/40] Windows: A rudimentary poll() emulation., Johannes Sixt, (Wed Feb 27, 2:54 pm)

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