Re: [Monotone-devel] renaming monotone executable (again)

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 12:17:15PM +0100, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote:
> Uhmm, please no.  A dot file like that is a portability nightmare,
> trust me (I'm still planning on porting to VMS if I can, I just got to
> find the time to upgrade the C++ compiler).

I trust you, but could you elaborate anyway? :-)

I know of one annoying bug where one tool that comes with Microsoft's
VS.NET/ASP.NET chokes and dies on directories that contain any file
whose name starts with a .; this is why svn has the weird hack
mentioned in my message.  This alone isn't totally compelling as an
argument, though; it's just one tool in one version of one piece of
3rd-party software.

I had a vague impression that VMS had enough interesting differences
that one more thing like this would not make much of a difference
either way, but this is not really based on anything...

-- Nathaniel

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