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>> Right now it can be used to generate test data for package managers |
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>> and other software, though I would like to extend it to generate code |
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>> for various languages as well. |
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>> You can find it at https://github.com/globalcitizen/gentoo-pms-abnf |
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> Could you account for the tightened package name spec? It has been |
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> updated some time ago [1]: |
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I just looked at the PMS URL at http://dev.gentoo.org/~ulm/pms/5/pms.html. |
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Is that not the latest version? If not, perhaps it should be taken offline. |
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> 3.1.2 Package Names |
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> A package name may contain any of the characters [A-Za-z0-9+_-]. |
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> It must not begin with a hyphen or a plus sign, and must not end in |
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> a hyphen followed by anything matching the version syntax described |
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> in section 3.2. |
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In any case, the change here seems to be from: |
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"... must not end in a hyphen followed by [one or more digits]" ... to ... |
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"... must not end in a hyphen followed by [anything matching the |
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version syntax described in section 3.2]" |
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It's certainly possible to update. Right now, since package names |
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can't include dots, any normal version syntax is pretty much banned |
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anyway. Probably the only thing that would be accepted is a whole |
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integer based version, with no ".x.x" subversioning present. |
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