From: Bengt Richter <bokr@bokr.com>
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why ban underscores?
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2021 03:05:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210405010523.GA2473@LionPure> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tuol7oa7.fsf@netris.org>
Hi,
On +2021-04-04 17:05:57 -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote:
> Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-05 1:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-04 20:49 Why ban underscores? Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2021-04-04 20:54 ` Vincent Legoll
2021-04-04 21:05 ` Mark H Weaver
2021-04-05 1:05 ` Bengt Richter [this message]
2021-04-17 15:54 ` Ludovic Courtès
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