On 06 August 2004 12:53, Martin Sjögren wrote:
>> Dashes in package names? Absolutely. I don't think you need a
>> non-dash separator between the package name and the version number,
>> just take the last dash in the package id as the name-version
>> separator.
>>
>> (I really like the <pkgname>-<version> format, probably because it's
>> so widespread these days).
>
> We-ell, there's the issue of the version tags, which use dashes as
> separator. But if we disallow tags in the package-id, it shouldn't be
> a problem. foo-bar-0.1.2-bar-foo is harder to understand, though. :)
Grrr. Forgot about the tags. I suggest tags use an underscore separator rather than a dash.
Cheers,
Simon
