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Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 11:22:14AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: > >>----- Original Message ----- >>From: "Charles Wilson" <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu> >> >> >>>I'd like to put in a vote for NOT treating '_' and '-' identically. >>> >>.. >> >>>In fact, I *thought* setup/upset didn't treat '_' any differently than >>>'a' but perhaps I was wrong... >>> >>So did I - I'm going to check. If they are treated the same now, then >>we'll have to check that no pacakges will get broken if we change. >>Otherwise I'll be changing it:} >> > > From parse_filename(): > > for (ver = p; *ver; ver++) > if (*ver == '-' || *ver == '_') At present, `grep "_" setup.ini' shows only a single instance of that character -- and it's within a description, not a package name. It should be safe to change this behavior so that '_' != '-' --Chuck
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