On Mon, 2014-09-08 at 03:48 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > On 2014-09-07 22:27 (GMT-0700) Adam Williamson composed: > > > On Sun, 2014-09-07 at 13:27 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > > >> On 2014-09-07 09:41 (GMT-0700) Adam Williamson composed: > > >> > It's not randomly chosen, we're iterating towards a naming scheme that > >> > doesn't suck. > > >> All naming schemes that include underscores suck, and for more than one reason. > > > Well, that was constructive. You could perhaps suggest some? > > If I knew why someone thought 21_Alpha_TC6 was better than F21a-TC1 and > 21-Alpha-TC3 I could do better. I never put underscores or whitespace in > filenames or directory names. Names of downloads that do either get trashed > or renamed. What's wrong with 21AlphaTC6, kdeRuntimeLibs or > googleDroidSansMonoFonts, all of which can be pronouced without a bazillion > extra syllables? Un-der-score, multiply? Why does anyone do that? Can anyone > type an underscore without looking at the keyboard? Underscores for most > purposes (not all), are _booby_traps_ (only after clicking send will I know > if they produced the result I want). To separate the individual elements, so you can parse the string reliably. In the string 21AlphaTC6 how do I know where the release number stops and the milestone starts and the milestone stops and the compose type starts, without a lot of hardcoded special sauce knowledge in the parser? The function of the - and/or _ are to act as separators to make parsing the string easier and more reliable. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
