[rb-general] BUILD_PATH_PREFIX_MAP format spec, draft #1

[Eitan Adler]

On 21 January 2017 at 10:12, Holger Levsen <holger at layer-acht.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 21, 2017 at 01:50:00PM +0000, Ximin Luo wrote:
>> Proposal draft
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>>
>> TL;DR: similar to url-encoding except we only hexencode {'%', '=', ':'}.
> [...]
>
>>
>> Rejected options
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>>
>> - Simple-split using semi-common characters like ':' which loses the ability to
>>   map paths containing those characters.
>
> narf :(
>
> I've never encountered colons in real world pathes used for building
> software…

I have but its reasonable to disallow them in spec. The use for colons
in the path was to serve as a faux directory split (i.e., it was used
to map an artifact to the directory it came from).

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Eitan Adler