On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 09:41:45AM -0400, Andres Salomon wrote: > I intend to rename the binary packages for mysql++ with the upload of 2.0.5. > They've been called libsqlplus* for a while now, which isn't overly > intuitive (I've had multiple people not realize mysql++ was packaged for > debian, due to the name). My choices are either libmysqlpp* (to match > the library name) or libmysql++*. Does anyone have any preferences, or > any reasons why I shouldn't use ++ in the package name? Given that g++ > does it, and policy explicitly allows '+', I can't think of any reasons > not to name it libmysql++*.
one minor point would be "apt-get install" interpreting + and - appended to package names for manual conflict resolution.so "apt-get install ... libmysql++ ..." could have different meanings in different context 1. there is a package called libmysql++: install the package 2. there is no package with that name: prefer the package called 'libmysql+' (note the single plus in the end !) for resolving packages in the given command line... this is not a _real_ technical problem, but it is a bit ugly (I have implemented a package-availability checker using libapt-pkg-perl for FAI and exactly this ambiguity caused headaches and/or unnecessairily complex code). Basically, I can't understand the following thing: - why it's not forbidden by policy to use these characters as the end of a packagename when they have a special meaning on the apt commandline ? - or why is apt's command line interpreter changed to a different syntax for these special operations if + and - are allowed as the last character of a package name ? -- c u henning -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
