>>>>> ">" == H Nanosecond <H.> writes:
>> I encountered pavuk-0.9pl24 a url download utility,
>> it has a space in the version name in the Init:
>> AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE($PACKAGE, "$VERSION $host_alias")
>> and this made make distcheck choke from not quoting in shell commands.
>> So my question is what is the ruling on spaces in version names?
>> Allowed or disallowed?
It never occurred to me that somebody would do that.
I would say that this is de facto disallowed.
It seems to me that the only reasons to support it would be pedantic
ones. In practice you can just use a "-" or something else.
Tom
