[Distutils] Re: Bug/patch question, WinNT, Borland C linker, spaces in paths

[René Liebscher]

Rafal Dowgird schrieb:
> 
> Thanks for the reply.
> 
> > Are you sure that it's worth adding quoting support for paths
> > with embedded spaces to distutils is worth the effort ?
> 
> > I know that spaces in paths of executables and DLLs cause
> > endless problems on Windows and most of these can easily be
> > avoided by installing program files to a non-space-containing
> > path location on the disk.
> 
> I am far from insisting that this patch should be applied. There are
> some simpler options that could improve the situation:
> 
> - documenting it as a known bug with workaround
> - making distutils print a warning upon encountering a space in an
>   argument

I would suppose the following solution for _nt_quote_args:

IF the given string doesn't contain any '"'
THEN quote the whole string as usual
ELSE leave it as it is. (Reason is: you would split then arguments. eg. 
a" "b  would become "a" "b" )

With this solution all existing code should work as usual.
And it is possible for any code using spawn/_nt_quote_args using its own
quoting schema.
(Which means for bcppcompiler.py fixing the link method.)


Kind regards
Rene Liebscher