Base Directory Specification - XDG_*_DIRS syntax

[Charles Suprin]

Since no-one else has brought this up, there are portability
considerations.  There are colons in Windows paths.  The ever famous
c:\.  Also old versions of Apple products used to use colons as well
for directory separators. Perhaps the solution is to have the
XDG_DATA_DIRS and XDG_CONFIG_DIRS stored as the native PATH variable.
However others probably know better than I.

Just my $.02,

Charles Suprin

On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 8:57 AM, Thiago Macieira <thiago at kde.org> wrote:
> On Sunday, 25 de December de 2011 05.14.38, subscription.discussion at gmail.com
> wrote:
>> The XDG Base Directory Specification states that the environment variables
>> $XDG_DATA_DIRS and $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS both have a list of paths that are
>> separated by a colon (':') character. How should the values be interpreted
>> if the path contains colons? Should the colon be escaped? How about the
>> escape character, should that be escaped then too (e.g. '\\')? Or are
>> colons allowed in the path at all?
>
> How does PATH do it?
>
> But I guess the question should be: is it wise to use paths that contain a
> colon?
>
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