[Gnu-arch-users] regexps for namespace

[Jean Helou]

I finally found some time to start hacking namespace.(c|h) to make it 
use regexps.

My first patch changes the over_archive_name so it uses a regexp defined 
in namespace.h to validate archive names. The regexp is a modified 
version of what was proposed by Jan Hudec, it allows for weird but rfc 
valid email addresses , however it still requires an alphanum at the 
start of both strings on each side of the @, thus imposing a (smaller 
but not null) restriction on valid addresses. This should prevent bug 72 
from hitting too hard for the moment.

Next step will convert over_base_name, over_version and over_patch_level 
to use regular expressions too.

Then I will try and see which files also do namespace validation of 
their own and modify these so they use the namespace.(h|c) functions. 
This should also correct bug 72 and make finetuning namespace easier.

You may get this patch here for review (this is my first patch against 
the tla tree):
address@hidden/tla--devel--1.3--patch-1

address@hidden
   http://concept-in.org/~jean/archives/address@hidden

Cheers,
Jean

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