RFC: "_" instead of "-" as separator between package names and version numbers

[gui_dos@…]

In order to facilitate the recognition of externally available prebuilt packages, it would be better using Debian's convention to separate the name of a port from its version number by using an underscore sign instead of a minus. This should ease, for example, importing the packages made available in opendarwin.org's WebDAV Server since it's currently difficult to tokenize the filename of a package to extract the port name.

[mww@…]

so whats the advantage? Ports are allowed to use "_" in their names, too, like mod_ruby.

[gui_dos@…]

I am trying to quickly have a package list from packages.opendarwin.org/Tiger-Packages simply by mounting it and calling a ls shell command.

I tried to analyze the Info.plist of every single package but the performances of WebDAW support in Finder are too poor.

Port names contain a maximum of a single underscore so extracting them could be much more easier than parsing for the variable amount of minus signs.

Of course this would be just a workaround for easing scripters' life ;) but I think it should also be useful for quickly importing archived binaries without the need to provid an index.

[olegb@…]

m00:~ olegb$ port search zope-emil zope-emil_email_client zope/zope-emil_email_client 0.6.1 Emil Email Client is an email client for Zope

We are not changing this (allowed) behavior to make your fetching of packages easier. Sorry.