[vlc-devel] commit: module: Allow multiple paths in --plugin-path (Separated by ':'). ( Pierre d'Herbemont )

[Pierre d'Herbemont]

On Mar 28, 2008, at 2:55 PM, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:

> Le Friday 28 March 2008 13:18:30 git version control, vous avez  
> écrit :
>> vlc | branch: master | Pierre d'Herbemont  
>> <pdherbemont at videolan.org> | Fri
>> Mar 28 11:59:20 2008 +0100|  
>> [889c73d0f220a2366abd0a72e591cf8221433c28]
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>> module: Allow multiple paths in --plugin-path (Separated by ':').
>
> : is not only used by Windows for drive letters as already noted.  
> It's also a
> valid filename character on Linux. This reintroduces the exact same  
> issue
> that the strict MRL/colon rules were addressing...

Do we really care? plugin-path is a rather advanced usage... I would  
suggest to escape : with \. It is not supported, but could be added  
with much less pain that rewriting the module config to support  
multiple values.

Pierre.