request: No Spaces in released Filenames

[axxs]

On unix based systems, it really slows you down dealing with spaces in filenames, and is generally not the standard for package releases, nor indeed at all in filenames.

The general release methodology is to replace spaces with a dash (-). Why? Shells break a command line at spaces, and most shells also word-split the results of variable and command substitution. So a filename containing spaces can be split into pieces.

Using an underscore is also not the best, the underscore is traditionally considered a word character by the \w regex operator, you can see this in the way google sees underscoring in a series of words as one big word, whereas dash they are seen correctly as separate.

I know it's not major, and us *nix folk can find work arounds, but thought I better let you folks know a pet peeve of mine with Pligg, and you'll probably hear others mention it as more folk become aware of the software

have a search for 'spaces in filenames' on google about 16,800,000 results

[kbeeveer46]

Sourceforge doesn't allow you to use spaces when uploading file releases and they recommend using underscores. So that will never be able to change if you're downloading off Sourceforge.

On the forum release we might be able to change for *nix people.