Re: user-controlled load-path extension: load-dir

[Jambunathan K]

> If version-to-list accepts that version but package.el still gives an
> error, then it is a bug.  Please report it to the bug tracker, thanks.

This is out of thread ...

In package-tar-file-info, the following regexp is used for validating
the package name.

  (unless (string-match "^\\(.+\\)-\\([0-9.]+\\)\\.tar$" file)
    (error "Invalid package name `%s'" file))

The above regexp wouldn't catch files with the following version strings
1.0pre2 1.0.7.5 22.8beta3 0.9alpha1 6.9.30Beta.

Furthermore, if I do build a org-7.5pre1.tar, then list-packages gets
very confused about the name.

I believe some sort of auditing around numeric <-> stringified versions
of package files could be taken up.

Jambunathan K.

>
> Tom