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bug#19219: Package names with digits following dashes
From: |
Alex Kost |
Subject: |
bug#19219: Package names with digits following dashes |
Date: |
Wed, 23 Dec 2015 11:05:52 +0300 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) |
Mathieu Lirzin (2015-12-23 00:23 +0300) wrote:
[...]
> In fact I think that having the same character for separating words and
> version is a design flaw.
Wow, I didn't think about it before. And I totally agree!
> This brings non desirable limitations when
> choosing a package name (as shown in this bug report) and/or requires a
> complex parsing algorithm. We could use a reserved character instead
> (just like we do for multiple outputs).
Great idea! I also think it would be a right decision to have different
separators for package name words, versions and outputs.
> My proposition would be to have
> ':' for versions and '/' for outputs, like this:
>
> guile:1.8/doc
> xterm-256-color:320
> emacs:24.5/out
>
> WDYT?
The choice of the separator characters doesn't really matter I think. I
would prefer '_' and ':', i.e. 'emacs-foo-bar_24.5:out'.
--
Alex
- bug#19219: Package names with digits following dashes, Mathieu Lirzin, 2015/12/08
- bug#19219: Package names with digits following dashes, Ludovic Courtès, 2015/12/10
- bug#19219: Package names with digits following dashes, Mathieu Lirzin, 2015/12/21
- bug#19219: Package names with digits following dashes, Ludovic Courtès, 2015/12/21
- bug#19219: Package names with digits following dashes, Mathieu Lirzin, 2015/12/22
- bug#19219: Package names with digits following dashes,
Alex Kost <=
- bug#19219: New command-line syntax for package + version?, Ludovic Courtès, 2015/12/30
- bug#19219: New command-line syntax for package + version?, Mathieu Lirzin, 2015/12/30
- bug#19219: New command-line syntax for package + version?, Leo Famulari, 2015/12/30
- bug#19219: New command-line syntax for package + version?, Efraim Flashner, 2015/12/31
- bug#19219: New command-line syntax for package + version?, Alex Kost, 2015/12/31
- bug#19219: New command-line syntax for package + version?, Ludovic Courtès, 2015/12/31
- bug#19219: New command-line syntax for package + version?, Christopher Allan Webber, 2015/12/31