On Oct 16, 2007, at 8:23 PM, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 10:45:29PM -0400, James E Keenan wrote:
Joshua Juran wrote:
On Oct 16, 2007, at 10:52 AM, Paul Cochrane wrote:
The minimum requirements for filenames should be:
- Any character in the set: a-zA-Z0-9,.-_
- Should we make a rule about multiple dots?
- Should there be a maximum length? 1024 chars? 100 chars? 12
chars?
I would like to see a maximum no greater than 31 characters, for
compatibility with traditional Mac OS.
I'm not necessarily in agreement with this, but I wonder whether you
could you run a 'find' over the Parrot distribution and provide us
with
a list of files that are >32 characters.
Running it on my checkout of parrot (r22155), I get
docs/dev/pmc_object_design_meeting_notes.pod (35 chars)
t/configure/010-verbose_step_number_not_called.t (36 chars)
That's the unanimous opinion.
This doesn't include files in .svn/ directories (many of which
exceed 32 characters because of the ".svn-base" extension added
to the name).
I'm aware of those. For now, they're a non-issue as I haven't yet
ported svn which would create them in the first place.
Josh
