Re: ".svn" directory name no good (in fact, it is worse than I thought)

"Ronald Cannes" <roncannes@hotmail.com> writes:

> > Sander, as usual, I think you're right :). Someone who is having
> > this problem and wants to see this fixed should a) open up an issue
> > for Subversion and

> Can someone do it, and, while your at it, put P1 on it and due
> 0.32.

Nice attitude. We'll get right on that.

> Seriously. This is getting really problematic as we move to a real
> development environment! Since this is due to a security patch, this
> has to be fixed in svn.
>
> >also open an issue with Microsoft.
>
> This is NOT a bug in Microsoft ASP.NET as someone else noted. The
> ".something" problem in ASP.NET stems from a security patch that prevents
> directory names containing periods under IIS virtual directories. Microsoft
> is never ever going to go back on this one. It's a feature now...

OK. So it's a bug in IIS. Whatever. You can call a pig a peacock all
you like, but it's still a pig.
 
> And in case you guys haven't noticed: IIS, ASP, ASP.NET, FrontPage,
> WebServices, etc on Windows is a big part of a lot of people's working day.
> I don't think they'll enjoy this bug...

Show me other use cases where it's bothering people--so far we've only
got one use case, and that's for one particular configuration of one
particular IDE. Whatever change we make, I think it should happen post
1.0.

-Fitz

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Brian W. Fitzpatrick    <fitz_at_red-bean.com>   http://www.red-bean.com/fitz/
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