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bug#19219: New command-line syntax for package + version?
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
bug#19219: New command-line syntax for package + version? |
Date: |
Wed, 30 Dec 2015 15:07:58 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) |
Mathieu Lirzin <address@hidden> skribis:
> In fact I think that having the same character for separating words and
> version is a design flaw. This brings non desirable limitations when
> choosing a package name (as shown in this bug report) and/or requires a
> complex parsing algorithm. We could use a reserved character instead
> (just like we do for multiple outputs). My proposition would be to have
> ':' for versions and '/' for outputs, like this:
>
> guile:1.8/doc
> xterm-256-color:320
> emacs:24.5/out
>
> WDYT?
I had to think a lot because that’s a big change (technically simple I
think, but it’s the change of UI and habits that’s bigger ;-)). I came
to the conclusion that it’s probably a necessary thing.
Regarding the aesthetics, I’d be in favor of using @ for the version:
address@hidden
address@hidden:doc
I’m not sure if we should also allow:
guile:address@hidden
Thoughts?
Ludo’.
- bug#19219: Package names with digits following dashes, Mathieu Lirzin, 2015/12/08
- bug#19219: Package names with digits following dashes, Ludovic Courtès, 2015/12/10
- bug#19219: Package names with digits following dashes, Mathieu Lirzin, 2015/12/21
- bug#19219: Package names with digits following dashes, Ludovic Courtès, 2015/12/21
- bug#19219: Package names with digits following dashes, Mathieu Lirzin, 2015/12/22
- bug#19219: Package names with digits following dashes, Alex Kost, 2015/12/23
- bug#19219: New command-line syntax for package + version?,
Ludovic Courtès <=
- bug#19219: New command-line syntax for package + version?, Mathieu Lirzin, 2015/12/30
- bug#19219: New command-line syntax for package + version?, Leo Famulari, 2015/12/30
- bug#19219: New command-line syntax for package + version?, Efraim Flashner, 2015/12/31
- bug#19219: New command-line syntax for package + version?, Alex Kost, 2015/12/31
- bug#19219: New command-line syntax for package + version?, Ludovic Courtès, 2015/12/31
- bug#19219: New command-line syntax for package + version?, Christopher Allan Webber, 2015/12/31