On Fri, 6 Aug 2004 13:15:57 +0100, Simon Marlow
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.
:) Or a plus as I think Ian suggested at some point: foo-bar-0.1.2+bar+foo. There is, however, another good reason for not using a dash to separate name and version. Package names can contain digits. I'm not sure if they can or should contain dots, but given "foo-3", you don't know whether it refers to "package foo, version 3" or "package foo-3 without version"... Maybe it's not problematic enough to worry about, though. /Martin