Previously Enrique Zanardi wrote: > Current practice suggests hyphen instead of dot for including a version > in a package name: mico-2.3.0, kernel-image-2.2.17, cpp-2.95, perl-5.005, > netscape-smotif-475, libgnat-3.13p-1, libbz2-1.0, libid3-3.7-13, ... > just to name a few.
Hm, I should have read the full proposal I guess :( Some of the mentioned package names in the proposal are quite bogus though: * libgtrans-mysql-3-23 Looks like a library for mysql3.23, not version 3-23 or so. Proper package name should then be libgtrans-mysql3.23 * libgtrans-postgresql-6-5-3 Same as above, should be libgtrans-postgresql6.5.3 * libid3-3.7-13 * libmath3d-0.3-0 I don't see where those numbers come from or why they are useful. The idea of seperating the ABI version (bit more general then soname) from the packagename with a - is indeed useful. Wichert. -- _________________________________________________________________ / Nothing is fool-proof to a sufficiently talented fool \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.liacs.nl/~wichert/ | | 1024D/2FA3BC2D 576E 100B 518D 2F16 36B0 2805 3CB8 9250 2FA3 BC2D |
