[PD-dev] deken: major revamp of the packaging format for externals

Martin Peach chakekatzil at gmail.com
Mon Feb 26 17:55:25 CET 2018


On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 11:06 AM, IOhannes m zmölnig <zmoelnig at iem.at>
wrote:

>
> at the beginning of the filename comes the libraryname.
> it may contain any characters with the exception of square brackets
> (`[]`) and parentheses (`()`).
>
> ...

>
> the version string may contain any characters with the exception of
> square brackets (`[]`) and parentheses (`()`).
>
> ...


> each arch specifier may contain any character with the exception of
> square brackets (`[]`) and parentheses (`()`), and the dash (`-`) is
> reserved as delimiter (so it must not be used in the components)
>
>

I would suggest that, since the strings you propose will be filenames, they
also not contain any characters that are interpreted (e.g. '\', '/') or not
accepted by all filesystems.

Martin
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