Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Tutorial question

[Tom Lord]

    > From: "Pierce T. Wetter III" <address@hidden>

    > "An archive name consists of an email address, followed by two dashes, 
    > followed by a suffix."

    >   Is that a requirement (name is parsed) or a "best practice"?

It's a semi-requirement.   The name is parsed but only approximately.


    >   would:

    >    pierce--projects

    >   work? (That's enough for internal people to find me.)

No, and it should not.   That string is a valid package name
(CATEGORY--BRANCH) and we don't want to create an ambiguity.   A
string which is a valid archive name must not be a valid category,
package, version, or revision name.

That requirement allows, for example, a command to accept a parameter
which might be an archive name, or might be a package name, and to
recognize automatically which one it got.

-t