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Re: [[PATCH setup] 0/3] Prepare for colons in version numbers
- From: Achim Gratz <Stromeko at nexgo dot de>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2017 21:26:49 +0200
- Subject: Re: [[PATCH setup] 0/3] Prepare for colons in version numbers
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- References: <20171027184723.9324-1-kbrown@cornell.edu>
Ken Brown writes:
> A future version of setup might allow version numbers of the form
> e:v-r, where is an epoch. Currently setup doesn't parse these
> correctly when reading installed.db. In case ScanFindVisitor is used,
> there is an additional problem in reading filenames containing colons.
> The reading is done by Win32 functions, and the illegal characters
> like ':' aren't translated.
I don't really think it's worth anybody's while to introduce support for
a feature (epochs) that everone else decided should not be used. Do we
really want to use epochs and what for?
Regards,
Achim.
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