On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 07:54:12PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: > > >Christopher Faylor wrote: > >>On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 11:22:14AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: >> >>>----- Original Message ----- >>>From: "Charles Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> >>> >>>>I'd like to put in a vote for NOT treating '_' and '-' identically. >>>> >>>.. >>> >>>>In fact, I *thought* setup/upset didn't treat '_' any differently than >>>>'a' but perhaps I was wrong... >>>> >>>So did I - I'm going to check. If they are treated the same now, then >>>we'll have to check that no pacakges will get broken if we change. >>>Otherwise I'll be changing it:} >>> >> >>From parse_filename(): >> >> for (ver = p; *ver; ver++) >> if (*ver == '-' || *ver == '_') > > >At present, `grep "_" setup.ini' shows only a single instance of that >character -- and it's within a description, not a package name. It >should be safe to change this behavior so that '_' != '-'
I agree. I don't know that there was ever a package which had an '_' in it. I think I was probably just trying to be forgiving. I don't think there's any read to make '-' and '_' interchangeable. cgf
