On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 3:26 PM, marcin mank <marcin.mank@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 9:16 PM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
>> On mån, 2011-02-14 at 12:14 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> I guess the real question is what's Peter's concrete objection to the
>>> double-dash method?
>>
>> It just looks a bit silly and error prone. And other packaging systems
>> have been doing without it for decades.
>
> how about : we use a single dash as the separator, and if the
> extension author insists on having a dash in the name, as a punishment
> he must duplicate the dash, i.e.:
> uuid--ossp-1.0--5.5.sql
That has a certain poetic justice to it.
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