File Naming

J K.Eason john at jeason.cix.co.uk
Tue Jul 9 13:43:00 EDT 2013


> There are a couple of options. I could make the the next rev of the 
> windows installer set fatfilename on by default so that Windows 
> users don't get themselves in trouble with whitespace.  I hate to 
> install useless settings by default, though.  I could also change 
> get_iplayer to always apply fatfilename if whitespace is set, for 
> Windows only.  I think I prefer the latter.  I wouldn't want 
> fatfilename as the default with whitespace on other platforms since 
> it isn't necessary.

At the moment almost half the downloads would fail under Windows if
whitespace is used on its own, so applying fatfilename with whitespace on
Windows only would seem to be the ideal option.

Regards
       John



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