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Re: Incorrect version in packages names
- From: Charles Wilson <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>
- To: Ralf Habacker <Ralf dot Habacker at freenet dot de>
- Cc: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 10:15:11 -0400
- Subject: Re: Incorrect version in packages names
- References: <00e801c22b36$9be13050$5aa907d5@BRAMSCHE>
Ralf Habacker wrote:
The naming was probably inherited from linux, where it is possible to
have both kde (1) and kde (2) and kde (3) all installed on the same
machine. Therefore, each needs different basename.
If the kde-cygwin folks want to maintain that package-name distinction,
then they should just use "kdelibs_2" instead of "kdelibs-2" as their
basename. Then upset and setup will be happy -- and end users will be
able to install both kdelibs_2 and kdelibs_3.
What about kde-x. Must it be named kde_x ?
No, kde-x is fine. The problem is, the parser can't tell if the
grouping after a '-' is part of the package name or package version,
when the grouping begins with a numeral.
kde-2 -- confusinng
kde-x -- not confusing
--Chuck