Jim Meyering <jim@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I want to know the motivation. I.e., if there are tools that mishandle > a component that starts with a digit but contains non-digits, then using > all '.'s is no longer a question of appearances; it's a necessity. I can only speculate, but the sha1 can be all-numeric, and the g prefix makes sure it's not parsed as a number. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@xxxxxxx SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
