Re: underscores
bruce@pixar.com (Bruce Perens) writes:
> > A: package-name_1.2.3-1_i386.deb
> > B: package_name-1.2.3_1-i386.deb
> In my honest opinion convention "A" is easier to explain. It also
> tends to do the right thing even with such simple-minded Unix commands
> as "sort -t_", "cut -d_", and so on.
I agree, but then again I'm used to lisp where "-" is the most common
word separator, so I don't have as much of a bias against it as those
only used to "_".
Either way, I'm glad it looks like we're about to get this settled.
Let's decide one way or the other soon and get the changes made for
1.1.
--
Rob
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