On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 12:00:55AM -0500, Joseph Carter wrote: > Any others? Last time this came up, it was suggested by someone (may have even been me, I don't remember) that two dashes might be used. so, 1.2.3--pre < 1.2.3 This seems to me to be the most visually clean suggestion, and tools that parse package names, but don't compare versions, would not need any modification whatsoever. I would also vote for reusing the colon, if it came to that. -brad