Eric Blake wrote: > > On 07/31/2014 07:26 AM, D. Boland wrote: > > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >> So I'd like to ask a few questions to which I'd like to have some brief > >> answers, kind of like a poll, to get a better idea how we should > >> proceed: > >> > >> 1. Shall we remove the leading '+' from the builtin account names > >> or shall we keep it? > >> > >> 2. Shall we stick to '+' as the separator char or choose another one? > >> If so, which one? > >> > >> 3. Shall we keep the `db_prefix' variability or choose one of > >> the prefixing methods and stick to it? If so, which one, auto, > >> primary, or always? > > > > I'm a legacy man. So I would say keep the MS symbol and use it like this > > \daniel, > > \SYSTEM, etc. > > But you'd have to write that as '\daniel' or \\daniel in the shell, and > you also cripple tilde expansion. That's why we already ruled out :, \, > and / as non-starters, as mentioned elsewhere in this thread.
I am not only a man of legacy, but also a very opinionated one. So give me some slack when I say: the whole thing is insane. This would mean that from now on, I have to use constructs like ~+daniel ~+SYSTEM in a Linux shell?? Bizarre. On the other hand, for the sake of progress, but keeping legacy there would be only one acceptable solution: use the tilde symbol. A user could then be referred to as: ~daniel. This already works in the shell and it is also done by the Apache webserver. If I want to go my personal web space I can type: http://localhost/~daniel/ Come to think of it: IMAP does this too! I have been coding for an IMAP project, and if you want to fetch somebody's mail, you'd have to use ~corinna to display the contents of her INBOX. Cheers, Daniel -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
