Re: renaming mysql++
On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 09:41:45AM -0400, Andres Salomon wrote:
> I intend to rename the binary packages for mysql++ with the upload of 2.0.5.
> They've been called libsqlplus* for a while now, which isn't overly
> intuitive (I've had multiple people not realize mysql++ was packaged for
> debian, due to the name). My choices are either libmysqlpp* (to match
> the library name) or libmysql++*. Does anyone have any preferences, or
> any reasons why I shouldn't use ++ in the package name? Given that g++
> does it, and policy explicitly allows '+', I can't think of any reasons
> not to name it libmysql++*.
one minor point would be "apt-get install" interpreting + and - appended to
package names for manual conflict resolution.so
"apt-get install ... libmysql++ ..." could have different meanings in different
context
1. there is a package called libmysql++:
install the package
2. there is no package with that name:
prefer the package called 'libmysql+' (note the single plus in the end !)
for resolving packages in the given command line...
this is not a _real_ technical problem, but it is a bit ugly (I have
implemented a package-availability checker using libapt-pkg-perl for FAI and
exactly this ambiguity caused headaches and/or unnecessairily complex code).
Basically, I can't understand the following thing:
- why it's not forbidden by policy to use these characters as the end of a
packagename when they have a special meaning on the apt commandline ?
- or why is apt's command line interpreter changed to a different syntax for
these special operations if + and - are allowed as the last character of a
package name ?
--
c u
henning
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