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[Yuv <679353@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On March 21, 2011 06:49:49 pm Bart van Andel wrote:
> > Interesting. Last year during the implementation of the makefilelib there
> > was no help. Also after merging there was no feedback.
> > The makefilelib contains own test routines which creates test makefiles.
> > But now - at once - all problematic characters show up.
> 
> Yes, well, to paraphrase one of our most dedicated group members, I
> finally found an itch to scratch.

It's not my invention, I am just paraphrasing more famous Open Source 
advocates than me.

To answer Thomas' question: the key is pain, a powerful motivator.  As long as 
it does not pain, it will be ignored.

When it is in a development branch, it as good as invisible.  Few people 
bother even looking at those branches.

Integration in default increases the audience an estimated x100, but still 
most of that audience does not feel the pain of borderline use cases.  I 
wonder what kind of users are those that use such convoluted filenames.  I 
would have never caught any of those pesky unacceptable characters.

Release increases the audience another estimated x100.  Now things get some 
serious real-life testing and there is some feedback.  The noise associated 
with the pain increases the visibility of the issue, attracts contributors, 
and eventually a solution is hammered out.

Thank you all for helping make Hugin better.
Yuv

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/679353

Title:
  Filter unacceptable characters before the stitching process fail

Status in Hugin - Panorama Tools GUI:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  Program failed to stitch pano. See below
  I believe the reason is that there is an '&' ampersand in the folder/path, when this was removed the stitch executed.
  Mac OSX.6.1, iMac core 2 duo, 2.16ghz
  Lee

  Checking nona...Checking enblend...Checking enfuse...Checking hugin_hdrmerge...Checking exiftool...[FAIL]
  /Volumes/Travel\ \ Brick/Desktop/Hugin\ &\ Other\ Pano\ Tools/Hugin.app/Contents/Resources/HuginStitchProject.app/Contents/MacOS/nona  -z PACKBITS -r ldr -m TIFF_m -o import\ calico\ plus\ editing -i 0 /var/folders/qa/qao7fMevEt8j5jpIF8amUU+++TI/-Tmp-/huginpto_yXIEbb
  gnumake: [test] Error 127 (ignored)
  gnumake: [test] Error 127 (ignored)
  gnumake: [test] Error 127 (ignored)
  /bin/sh: /Volumes/Travel  Brick/Desktop/Hugin : No such file or directory
  /bin/sh: /Volumes/Travel  Brick/Desktop/Hugin : No such file or directory
  /bin/sh: /Volumes/Travel  Brick/Desktop/Hugin : No such file or directory
  /bin/sh: /Volumes/Travel  Brick/Desktop/Hugin : No such file or directory
  gnumake: [test] Error 127 (ignored)
  /bin/sh: /Volumes/Travel  Brick/Desktop/Hugin : No such file or directory
  /bin/sh:  Other Pano Tools/Hugin.app/Contents/Resources/HuginStitchProject.app/Contents/MacOS/nona: No such file or directory
  gnumake: *** [import calico plus editing0000.tif] Error 127