[Python-Dev] Leading whitespace in Mac IDE script name (original) (raw)

Sjoerd Mullender sjoerd at acm.org
Sun Jul 4 21:12:38 CEST 2004

Nick Coghlan wrote:

Hi,

I'm trying to fetch Python from CVS using Eclipse, and it's choking on a file with leading whitespace in its name: /python/dist/src/Mac/IDE scripts/Widget demos/ separator --- There's an identical file in the same directory, but without the leading whitespace in the name. So is this 'leading whitespace' version actually needed, or is it something historical? Regards, Nick P.S. I also sent a question to the Eclipse folks regarding the fact that the Eclipse CVS checkout collapses in a screaming heap when it hits this file. However, if the Mac release doesn't use this file, getting rid of it from the HEAD would probably get me up and running more quickly.

There is a long-outstanding bug report about a bunch of file names in the MAC/IDE scripts directory: 764447. Supposedly this was going to be dealt with after 2.3 became final... I expect that any fix for this report would also fix your problem with the leading white space.

-- Sjoerd Mullender <sjoerd at acm.org>

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