Hi Phil, Am 19.11.2010 um 18:19 schrieb Philip Brown <[email protected]>:
> On 11/19/10, Dagobert Michelsen <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi Phil, >> >> Anfang der weitergeleiteten E-Mail: >>> -if [[ ${#software} -gt 20 ]] ; then errmsg $f: software name greater than >>> 20 chars ; fi >>> -if [[ ${#pkgname} -gt 20 ]] ; then errmsg $f: pkg name greater than 20 >>> chars; fi >>> +if [[ ${#software} -gt 29 ]] ; then errmsg $f: software name greater than >>> 29 chars ; fi >>> +if [[ ${#pkgname} -gt 32 ]] ; then errmsg $f: pkg name greater than 32 >>> chars; fi >> >> Waitaminute... When the package is called >> CSWpm(max 27 character) >> then the package name will be >> pm_(max 27 characters) >> leading to a 30 characters long catalog name. I guess the fixing on 29 >> catalog name was a it too fast... > > What.. you are suggesting that we now LOWER it, because perl package > maintainers cant figure out that they need to shorten their software > name by one char? :-} > We certainly cannot raise it further in any way > > I think that the max allowable limits, simply state "max > allowable",and that is fine. If there are collections of packages > (such as perl modules) that have naming conventions beyond our global > standard ones, that is something to be worked out for that area. It > does not need to affect our global limits. I am suggesting to raise the catalogname length limit to 30 characters. Best regards -- Dago _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers .:: This mailing list's archive is public. ::.
