Re: [PATCH] fix for interactive merge-callback not supporting spaces in file paths

Augie Fackler wrote:
>> svn_path_shell_autoescape doesn't exist yet; I was suggesting that you
>> (or somebody) write it. So I think it should DTRT on windows :-)
>
> Ahh. I'm not sure if I'm sadistic enough to figure out windows escaping
> rules... ;-)

This feels like an APR task, anyway. (Not that we couldn't write it
ourselves and donate it to that project.)

In fact, *all* of this stuff feels like something the portability layer
should be handling.

I'm trying to remember the history here. We started with using
svn_io_run_cmd() (and, ultimately, APR's process stuff), but that didn't
work when the command itself had spaces in it. So we switched to using
system(). But then we realized that the argument to the $EDITOR we're
calling might have spaces in it, too, so we're playing the escaping game.

Is it too much to ask for an APR function that accepts an array of input
parameters and handles all these problematic cases for us (and for all
others consumers of the APR library, for that matter)?!

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