Hi Kelly, I understand your basic points, but... Admittedly, the Windows command prompt (not simply Explorer) is less capable than most *nix command shells. However, there are also a very large number of Windows based GIMP users, and one of the requirements of GIMP 2.x is that it should be as usable under Windows as it is on other operating systems. I'm not familiar with R5RS, and you could certainly be right in your opinion regarding that. However, as a Windows GIMP user (and much more rarely a GIMP bug, patch, fix, and enhancement contributor), I want to make sure that there isn't excessive *nix bias that inhibits or ignores usability needs under Windows. For example, in one past case, I wanted to run a simple GIMP script from the Windows command shell, and there wasn't one single person (Sven and everyone else included), who was able to tell me how to arrange the quoting to get the script to run along with the required parameters. That level of disfunctionality is not acceptable, and should be eliminated, even if it means doing something like "abandoning" (or modifying) certain *nix based standards for the Windows version of the GIMP. Obviously though, I do realize the strong need to minimize any such Windows-specific behavior, and that any such differences should receive a great deal of very careful consideration before implementation. In the past however, I feel that the scale may have been tipped slightly too far against Windows on such issues. s/KAM ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kelly Martin" <kmartin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Kevin Myers" <KevinMyers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 9:07 PM Subject: Re: PDB named and default parameters (was Re: [Gimp-developer] The Mark Shuttleworth offer) > Kevin Myers wrote: > > > You seem to know what you're talking about Kelly, so I'll have to accept > > your word that my suggestion is un-Scheme-like. However, please verify one > > thing regarding your suggestion: How do you handle parameter values with > > imbedded blanks or other "special" characters? > > (True) Scheme has a quoting mechanism for this issue, which is relatively well > defined. It might be tricky to quote those quotes when you're using an inferior > command shell (such as Windows Explorer), but this should be considered a fault > of those environments -- and is certainly no reason to abandon the R5RS standard. > > Kelly > > > _______________________________________________ > Gimp-developer mailing list > Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
