Mailinglist Archive: yast-devel (74 mails)

[Thomas Goettlicher <thomas.goettlicher@xxxxxxx>]

On Friday, September 02, 2011 10:58:06 am Josef Reidinger wrote:
> Thomas Goettlicher write:
> > I wonder if 'yast++' or 'yast--' are names that might cause trouble
> > sometime in the future because of the '+' or '-' in it.
> >
> > I wasn't very happy with the version number as part of the package name
> > in yast2. Using '++' or '--' might be even worse, e.g. rpm uses '-' as
> > delimiter. There are more examples where it might cause conflicts, I
> > guess.
> >
> > What's your opinion?
> >
> > Thanks.
> > Thomas
>
> YaST++/-- is just codename for project. Packages ( now located at
> https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=YaST%3AHead%3Ayastpp ( not
> all packages packaked yet, WIP ) has own names, which is not problem for
> RPM. Josef

The project's name is 'YaST++', in git it's called 'yast--' and the 
buildservice projects is 'yastpp'. That's somehow inconsistent and might 
confuse newbies. I'd prefer a unique name.

Cheers,
Thomas 

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