Re: Package and package file naming and versioning
> One possible disadvantage which might be asserted is that `,' is a
> metacharacter more often. This is true, but the contexts in which `,'
> is a filename metacharacter and `.', `-' and `+' aren't are fairly
> rare, especially in Unix. There aren't any in FTP or any of the
> Debian stuff at the moment.
AFAIK dos/fat doesn't accept "," in filenames, it does accept "_".
Ok we have a linked dir with dos/fat filenames, but this isn't
up to date all the time, especially when Incoming is running a couple
of days behind (but this is a slightly other subject).
Why not following: it provides easier dos/fat compatible filenames:
dpkg.deb 1.2.3elf.i386 (the space is a space)
downloading via ftp will automatically name this file to dpkg.deb,
but I only tested this example on my system so others might find
other results.
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"Unix: 30 definitions of regular expressions living under one roof"
D.E. Knuth
Erick Branderhorst http://www.iaehv.nl/users/branderh/
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