Re: [MinGW-dvlpr] Standards for Building MinGW Release Packages

[Keith M. <kei...@us...>]

On Saturday 29 March 2008 18:25, Charles Wilson wrote:
> > Semantically, it makes no difference.  Syntactically, I think it is
> > easier to read, (by humans), if the dll version is also preceded by
> > a hyphen, (it makes the `dll' element stand out better), so the
> > last would become:
> >
> >    mingw-runtime-3.14-1-dll-0.tar.gz
>
> True, but that makes it much harder for automatic parsing (thinking
> of dependency/package management software). "The last chunk is part
> of the package 'name'" vs. "The last chunk, or maybe the last two
> chunks if the N-1 chunk == 'dll' is part of the package 'name'".

I'm having a hard time convincing myself why this should be so.  
Conversion from either form to the other is trivial, (even treating the 
name case-insensitively), using regular expressions:--

  $ echo mingw-runtime-3.14-1-dll-0.tar.gz |
      sed 's/-\([Dd][Ll][Ll]\)-/-\1/'
  mingw-runtime-3.14-1-dll0.tar.gz

  $ echo mingw-runtime-3.14-1-dll0.tar.gz |
      sed 's/-\([Dd][Ll][Ll]\)\([^-.]\)/-\1-\2/'
  mingw-runtime-3.14-1-dll-0.tar.gz

> Take a look at today's version of this page:
> \  
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2435&package_id=67879&release_id=540763
>
> Look at the (new) guile or openssl packages...

I did, and I have some concerns about the names.  However, since I am on 
holiday for the next two weeks, starting tonight, I'd prefer to address 
them on my return.

Regards,
Keith.