Any plan for Pro*C to tolerate spaces in paths?

Question

As of the most recent Pro*C downloaded for use with the Instant Client (11.2.something), it still can't tolerate spaces in any of its inputs.
Since Visual Studio installs by default into C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio X\..., there's an immediate problem with specifying "include=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio X\VC\Include", whether on the command line or in pcscfg.cfg. Pro*C finds none of the .h files, and the whole process ends.
This is really complicating our build process, as there's just no good way to construct a generic build script (free of environment variables or a list of possibly conflicting include directories to cover all the bases).
Does anyone know whether there's any plan for Pro*C to function as an application in the year 2012, rather than 1995, by coping with spaces in these paths?

Answer 1

I can't speak to the Pro*C side of things, but you can find the short name for those paths using "dir /x".
C:\>dir /x progr*
Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume Serial Number is B8EF-DC7A
Directory of C:\
01/25/2012  08:37 AM    <DIR>          PROGRA~1     Program Files
               0 File(s)              0 bytes
               1 Dir(s)  62,385,332,224 bytes free
C:\>dir /x "program files\microsoft visual*"
Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume Serial Number is B8EF-DC7A
Directory of C:\program files
09/02/2009  07:13 PM    <DIR>          MICROS~3     Microsoft Visual Studio
05/28/2010  08:07 AM    <DIR>          MID05A~1     Microsoft Visual Studio 8
               0 File(s)              0 bytes
               2 Dir(s)  62,385,324,032 bytes free
C:\>Using the short names in your path will look something like "include=C:\PROGRA~1\MID05A~1\VC\Include" and meets the "no spaces" requirement.