[Rpm-ecosystem] Special meaning of "+" (?) separator

Panu Matilainen pmatilai at laiskiainen.org
Mon Sep 12 14:27:23 UTC 2016


On 09/12/2016 05:18 PM, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> On 09/12/2016 03:10 PM, Neal Gompa wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 8:07 AM, Florian Festi <ffesti at redhat.com> wrote:
>>> Changing the way + is treated in version compare is really a bad idea.
>>> So this feature would need a new char that is currently not permitted in
>>> versions. Candidates include: #, ^, @, §, $, ?

Other possible candidates would be |, %, &, ! and *.

Most of them clash with various shell features, making them cumbersome 
in reality, but certainly some more than others.

	- Panu -



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