On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 04:14:27PM -0400, Randy Barlow wrote:
> On 03/16/2018 04:04 PM, Dennis Gregorovic wrote:
> > modules are not RPMs. I would not expect them to necessarily use the
> > same format as RPMs. If we take koji out of the equation, we have
> > module builds in N:S:V:C format and module RPMs in N-V-R.A format. They
> > use different separators, but both can be parsed consistently.
>
> I don't contest the above, but I am arguing that it is needlessly
> different and causes infrastructure software to need to handle module
> strings differently than they handle RPMs and containers. Perhaps there
> is a benefit that I've not been made aware of yet, but from where I sit
> it seems like a change that causes problems without bringing a tangible
> benefit.
>
> The reasoning I've heard so far is that this allows stream names to have
> -'s in them - is that important? I don't know it to be, but am open to
> be convinced. Thus my question - is it important enough to have -'s in
> stream names to justify the work needed to make all things that interact
> with Koji parse them using a web service rather than local code (such as
> rsplit('-', 2) in Python)?
So, is anyone knowledgeable who can answer this question?
If nobody can, then mostly likely the answer is "no, it's not important".
Zbyszek
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