From: | Cédric Villemain <cedric(dot)villemain(dot)debian(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: why two dashes in extension load files |
Date: | 2011-02-14 19:31:45 |
Message-ID: | AANLkTinwzVTRBy2g5aAorgvgJHMLNBqb=9sMCu6Bb0=b@mail.gmail.com |
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2011/2/14 Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>:
> "David E. Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com> writes:
>> On Feb 14, 2011, at 8:54 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>>> I'm not convinced. There was nothing in that discussion why any
>>>> particular character would have to be allowed in a version number.
>
>>> Well, there's already a counterexample in the current contrib stuff:
>>> uuid-ossp. We could rename that to uuid_ossp of course, but it's
>>> not clear to me that there's consensus for forbidding dashes here.
why do we care if there is a dash in the middle of a text where there
are no numbers ?
>
>> I'd be fine if commas were used instead.
>
> Commas do not seem like an improvement to me at all --- they are widely
> used as list separators.
>
> I guess the real question is what's Peter's concrete objection to the
> double-dash method?
I have to admit that I am a bit surprised by this -- stuff too.
An objection might be completely non-technical, but advocacy :
"what this funny new name convention those PostgreSQL folks did invent ?!"
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Cédric Villemain 2ndQuadrant
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