Warren's Package Naming Proposal - Revision 1

[Panu Matilainen]

On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 17:47, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le ven 31/10/2003 à 15:31, Warren Togami a écrit :
> > Mike A. Harris wrote:
> 
> > > Ick.  Underscores in version/release are hideous IMHO.  I'd use 
> > > "." instead of "_".  Your comment at the top of this section 
> > > indicates a ".", so perhaps you just made a typo, and sequence of 
> > > cut and paste errors?  ;o)
> > 
> > Oops.  Yeah, fedora.us original plan was ".", however some here on 
> > fedora-devel-list argued toward "_" as a more clear separator between 
> > the patchlevel and disttag because it can be confusing with so many "."
> > 
> > I personally actually prefer the "." separator, but I really don't care 
> > which is chosen.
> 
> For the record, I think underscores are hideous too.
> That makes it three people that commented on this:)

Heh, why not make it @ .. it sorta even has a meaning "foo-1.2.3 at
(==for) RHL 9": foobar-1.2.3-1 at 0.9.i386.rpm. Looks lovely doesn't it :)

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