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Date:      Wed, 21 Apr 2004 13:02:14 +0000
From:      Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
Cc:        cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: files/patch-* pathname separators
Message-ID:  <20040421130214.GC5052@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <xzpu0zdv7hb.fsf@dwp.des.no>
References:  <200404181922.i3IJMkTf044706@repoman.freebsd.org> <20040419032304.GA61048@regency.nsu.ru> <20040419103101.GB26102@dragon.nuxi.com> <20040419110810.GA24385@regency.nsu.ru> <20040420200903.GA6174@dragon.nuxi.com> <20040421094050.GA5052@FreeBSD.org> <40864E82.90904@portaone.com> <xzpu0zdv7hb.fsf@dwp.des.no>

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On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 02:30:24PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@portaone.com> writes:
> > I disagree. `::' is pretty harmless, I never had any problems due to
> > it. And, yes, I use bash as my primary shell.
> 
> Seconded.  I like the :: convention, and David seems to be the only
> one to have a problem with it.

I also tend to like the ::-convention, as it is the same separator as
used in various programming languages (Ruby, Perl, C++, etc) and thus
already is in the "separator" slot in my mind.  However, in private mail
David referred to a previous discussion that he said had resulted in a
decision against it.  Is there anybody out there that agree with David
in this?

I'd really ike to document *something* as the canonical form - and that
shouldn't be "patch-aa".  If the consensus is that this should use :: as
a separator, I'm very happy with that - and if it is that it should be
+, I'm more happy with that than with variation :-)

Eivind.



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