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Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 19:54:12 -0500
From: Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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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