Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 4/5] cargo.eclass: Support separating crate names/versions via slash

[Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>]

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Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> writes:

> On Fri, 2023-06-16 at 17:48 +0300, Denis Lisov wrote:
>> Hello Michał,
>> 
>> On Fri, Jun 16, 2023 at 3:09 PM Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> > Support specifying crate names and versions separated by forward slashes
>> > rather than hyphens.  Since slashes are not valid in crate names, this
>> > makes splitting the tokens trivial and free of regular expressions.
>> > Effectively, the slash variant is roughly 180% faster:
>> 
>> As a developer using Rust I want to note that Cargo has a concept of
>> "package ID specification"[1] that usually uses pkgname@version
>> syntax, but AFAIK there's no prior art for using pkgname/version in
>> the ecosystem. Could it make sense to use pkgname@version for
>> consistency?
>> 
>
> I suppose so.  The only reason I've used slash is because that could be
> used directly in URL.

I think we should do it (@ delimiter) - it looks more natural in a Rust/cargo context.

Thanks for the suggestion!

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