On 09/08/2019 2:41 p.m., Gabriel Becker wrote:
Note that this proposal would make mypackage_2.3.1 a valid *package name*,
whose corresponding tarball name might be mypackage_2.3.1_2.3.2 after a
patch. Yes its a silly example, but why allow that kind of ambiguity?
CRAN already has a package named "FuzzyNumbers.Ext.2", whose tarball is
FuzzyNumbers.Ext.2_3.2.tar.gz, so I think we've already lost that game.
Duncan Murdoch
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