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Piotr Jaroszyński wrote:
> 2009/5/28 Ulrich Mueller <u...@gentoo.org>:
>>>>>>> On Thu, 28 May 2009, Tiziano Müller wrote:
>>>> ${PORTDIR}/app-misc/foo/foo-1a_live.ebuild
>>>> ${PORTDIR}/app-misc/foo-1a/foo-1a-live.ebuild
>>> you probably mean:
>>> ${PORTDIR}/app-misc/foo-1a/foo-1a.live.ebuild
>> No, I mean what I had written, namely to use an underscore as
>> separator, i.e., "_live". But when the version is just "live" alone,
>> one would suppress the underscore for aesthetic reasons, i.e. instead
>> of "foo-1a-_live" it would be "foo-1a-live".
>>
>>> but how would their vdb or binpkg names be unique?
>>> vdb for example:
>>> app-misc/foo-1a_live for app-misc/foo
>> PN=foo, PV=1a_live => app-misc/foo-1a_live
>>
>>> app-misc/foo-1a_live for app-misc/foo-1a
>> PN=foo-1a, PV=live => app-misc/foo-1a-live
>>
>>> am I missing something?
>> Everything is easy, if you keep the following rule in mind:
>>
>>>> With our current versioning scheme the rule is very simple: ${P} is
>>>> split into ${PN} and ${PV} at the last hyphen. This can be done in
>>>> a straight forward way by regexp matching, and I would really hate
>>>> to lose this nice property.
>>> I don't understand why this property is important. Can you please
>>> explain?
>> See above, it automatically avoids any ambiguities in splitting P into
>> PN and PV. And look at function "pkgsplit" in Portage: It can just
>> treat PV as an opaque string.
>>
>> What would be the advantage to use a hyphen instead of an underscore?
>
> Mainly the thing you observed yourself - foo_live is a bit
> inconsistent with current versions.
Ulrich is proposing foo-live if live is the entire version, foo_live is not a
legal `package name and version'. (It could be a package name though.)
> The case you mention can be avoided with another restriction in PMS.
> Buut we might as well go all the way and change the version separator
> to -- or something, which would be the most flexible.
That would also be a good solution though we don't seem to need it yet. It would
also entail compatibility issues.
Marijn
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