On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 07:57:13PM +0200, Miro Hrončok wrote: > On 29. 04. 20 19:50, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > >>I don't agree that "python3.9" as a package name annoys humans or > >>break automation scripts. How does it? > >As soon as you have a different naming convention for numeric and non > >numeric qualifiers all the code that manipulates your package names > >must test if the qualifier is numeric or not, to add the hyphen or not. > > > >It is much simpler to just assume -<qualifier> everywhere, without > >testing <qualifier> in any way. > > > >That’s why > > > >%package XXX > > > >will create foo-XXX by default, and not ask you to split hairs and test > >if XXX is numeric or not (yes the hyphen separator is built in rpm core > >logic) > > What you say is true. I still don't agree that "python3.9" as a > package name annoys humans. And I don't understand what kind of > automation are we talking about that needs to parse the "3.9" part > and figure out it is a "qualifier". > > Such automation is broken anyway, because it cannot tell if > python-requests is a Python library or a Python "qualifier". Yep, having a dash there would create potential conflicts with python modules names. And it would be confusing for users, who wouldn't know if python-latest is a the module 'latest' or not. +1 to the renaming as proposed. Zbyszek _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
