On 06/17/2013 10:54 AM, g...@malth.us wrote:
As to why not fix the upstreams committing these atrocities, it's the
obvious reason -- occasionally one encounters a large body of dense,
non-fixable-by-sed/perl, poorly commented "spaghetti" script-code that
makes "clever," deep usage of the assumption that "//" == "/". Being
able to turn this feature off at one's option would enable them to
rule out "//" as a problem when they suspect it might be, and have the
additional benefit of not having to fix such code, in order to run it.
-gmt
If upstream code is broken it's broken. You can 1) fix it and submit it
as a patch or 2) don't fix it and find a better solution.
Stripping off additional '/''s is not that hard a problem to solve -
even in spaghetti code.
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