> > > Not, mind, that I'm proposing prepending parrot_ to all the filenames,
> > > though that's an option certainly.
> >
> >That would be fun on 8.3 filesystems :-).
>
> I'm seriously considering not going out of our way to support what could be
> reasonably considered antique systems. That'd include DOS-only machines. I
Tsk, tsk.
> don't think we should actively discourage them, but neither do I think we
> should be bound by their limitations.
If we want to be nice about this we should have enough metadata
about any embedded filenames to be able to convert those to help
less forturnate filesystems.
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