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Re: [ANN] apache_1.3.22-2
Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 11:22:14AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Charles Wilson" <cwilson@ece.gatech.edu>
>>
>>
>>>I'd like to put in a vote for NOT treating '_' and '-' identically.
>>>
>>..
>>
>>>In fact, I *thought* setup/upset didn't treat '_' any differently than
>>>'a' but perhaps I was wrong...
>>>
>>So did I - I'm going to check. If they are treated the same now, then
>>we'll have to check that no pacakges will get broken if we change.
>>Otherwise I'll be changing it:}
>>
>
> From parse_filename():
>
> for (ver = p; *ver; ver++)
> if (*ver == '-' || *ver == '_')
At present, `grep "_" setup.ini' shows only a single instance of that
character -- and it's within a description, not a package name. It
should be safe to change this behavior so that '_' != '-'
--Chuck