From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20940 invoked by alias); 27 Oct 2017 19:27:06 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-apps-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk Sender: cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 19219 invoked by uid 89); 27 Oct 2017 19:27:06 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=everone, Hx-spam-relays-external:ESMTPA X-HELO: vsmx009.vodafonemail.xion.oxcs.net Received: from Unknown (HELO vsmx009.vodafonemail.xion.oxcs.net) (153.92.174.87) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Fri, 27 Oct 2017 19:27:04 +0000 Received: from vsmx001.vodafonemail.xion.oxcs.net (unknown [192.168.75.191]) by mta-5-out.mta.xion.oxcs.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14886C0F13 for ; Fri, 27 Oct 2017 19:26:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from Gertrud (p57b9d4b7.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [87.185.212.183]) by mta-5-out.mta.xion.oxcs.net (Postfix) with ESMTPA id E3379300870 for ; Fri, 27 Oct 2017 19:26:53 +0000 (UTC) From: Achim Gratz To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [[PATCH setup] 0/3] Prepare for colons in version numbers References: <20171027184723.9324-1-kbrown@cornell.edu> Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2017 19:27:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20171027184723.9324-1-kbrown@cornell.edu> (Ken Brown's message of "Fri, 27 Oct 2017 14:47:20 -0400") Message-ID: <87wp3gs87a.fsf@Rainer.invalid> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-VADE-STATUS: LEGIT X-SW-Source: 2017-10/txt/msg00152.txt.bz2 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. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ Wavetables for the Waldorf Blofeld: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#BlofeldUserWavetables