Hi, On +2021-04-04 17:05:57 -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote: > Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <m...@tobias.gr> writes: > > > Indeed, underscores were explicitly banned in 2014 (commit > > 25083588). Why? > > > > Where's the advantage in renaming the following packages from > > their canonical names? > > While I was not involved in this decision, I think it's desirable to > standardize on a single hyphen-like character. Otherwise, it is likely > that people who prefer "_" over "-" will start using "_" in newly added > package names, which could lead to a proliferation of undesirable > diversity in our choices of hyphen-like characters. Then, we'd all have > to remember when typing a package name: "is this one of those packages > that uses underscores instead of hyphens?" > > Mark >
I note that underscore is not one of the safe 73 characters mentioned in rfc2049. Maybe related? -- Regards, Bengt Richter
