> 
> >
> > One suggestion is to replace ';' with '@' to separate module name from
> > version.  '@' is used to append a version number to commands in SVN (and
> > some other systems I think), so it will be familiar to many people.  The
> > reading of '@' as "at" works naturally too, E.g.
> >
> >        [EMAIL PROTECTED] -> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >        "ant at 1.7.0 depends on xercesImpl at 2.8.1"
> 
> 
> Indeed, it sounds good. My only concern with that is that we already use
> the  @ in the revision when none is provided (working@<machine name> to be
> precise). So it may be confusing while reading the console. A solution could
> be to update this default revision.
> 
> Maybe others have opinion to express?
> 

I like also the @, but I fear that it could give problems on some mailing list 
archives [1].  Everything following the @
is replaced by ... (Note that for the machine name, it is probably not an 
issue, and it is even maybe a good thing).


[1] 
http://www.nabble.com/Re%3A-vocabulary-and-text-representation-of-module-and-dependencies-tf4839330.html

Gilles


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