On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 8:54 AM, Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> It looks like on Windows we disallow arguments that contain double-quote,
> colon, or asterisk, and otherwise wrap arguments in double-quotes if they
> contain space. Then pass them through qx{}, which I can only guess what it
> does.
Well, the command interpreter of the platform implementation caused
this, I believe.
Quoting of the double quotes for it was too cumbersome for rarely used
combination
(windows, ActiveState Perl, and Git). I guess it is more popular now?
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