Re: Why ban underscores?

[Bengt Richter <bokr@bokr.com>]

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