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

Igor Gnatenko ignatenko at redhat.com
Mon Sep 12 14:31:05 UTC 2016


On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 4:27 PM, Panu Matilainen
<pmatilai at laiskiainen.org> wrote:
> 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 *.
| is shell-ish
% is already taken by RPM
& is shell-ish
! is shell-ish
* is shell-sih
>
> Most of them clash with various shell features, making them cumbersome in
> reality, but certainly some more than others.
In Pull Request I changed from plus to caret.
>
>
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