18 Jan, 2009
Support Spaces
From the little tips & tricks department:
When developing software, place your development source tree in a location that contains a space. On windows, the desktop is a great place, since it (at least on XP) always contains a space:
C:\Documents And Settings\YourName\Desktop\
It is all too common for source trees to not build when there is a space in the file name. It’s 2009 people, software developers should be able to deal with the space character. If you make sure you develop with a space character in your directory name, you’ll quickly notice when you accidentally make your software not build on paths-with-spaces.
The same goes for your build server. Place its source directory in a path with a space as well.
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