* [gentoo-pms] ABNF of PMS
@ 2013-07-10 10:02 Walter
2013-07-10 10:28 ` Ulrich Mueller
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From: Walter @ 2013-07-10 10:02 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-pms
Hi there, for anyone who wants a formal (machine parseable) version of
the PMS, I have created an attempted version on Github.
Right now it can be used to generate test data for package managers
and other software, though I would like to extend it to generate code
for various languages as well.
You can find it at https://github.com/globalcitizen/gentoo-pms-abnf
- Walter
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* Re: [gentoo-pms] ABNF of PMS
2013-07-10 10:02 [gentoo-pms] ABNF of PMS Walter
@ 2013-07-10 10:28 ` Ulrich Mueller
2013-07-10 11:02 ` Walter
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From: Ulrich Mueller @ 2013-07-10 10:28 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-pms
>>>>> On Wed, 10 Jul 2013, Walter wrote:
> Hi there, for anyone who wants a formal (machine parseable) version of
> the PMS, I have created an attempted version on Github.
> Right now it can be used to generate test data for package managers
> and other software, though I would like to extend it to generate code
> for various languages as well.
> You can find it at https://github.com/globalcitizen/gentoo-pms-abnf
Could you account for the tightened package name spec? It has been
updated some time ago [1]:
3.1.2 Package Names
A package name may contain any of the characters [A-Za-z0-9+_-].
It must not begin with a hyphen or a plus sign, and must not end in
a hyphen followed by anything matching the version syntax described
in section 3.2.
Ulrich
[1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/meeting-logs/20121009-summary.txt
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* Re: [gentoo-pms] ABNF of PMS
2013-07-10 10:28 ` Ulrich Mueller
@ 2013-07-10 11:02 ` Walter
2013-07-10 11:40 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2013-07-10 12:01 ` Ulrich Mueller
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From: Walter @ 2013-07-10 11:02 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-pms
>> Right now it can be used to generate test data for package managers
>> and other software, though I would like to extend it to generate code
>> for various languages as well.
>
>> You can find it at https://github.com/globalcitizen/gentoo-pms-abnf
>
> Could you account for the tightened package name spec? It has been
> updated some time ago [1]:
I just looked at the PMS URL at http://dev.gentoo.org/~ulm/pms/5/pms.html.
Is that not the latest version? If not, perhaps it should be taken offline.
> 3.1.2 Package Names
>
> A package name may contain any of the characters [A-Za-z0-9+_-].
> It must not begin with a hyphen or a plus sign, and must not end in
> a hyphen followed by anything matching the version syntax described
> in section 3.2.
In any case, the change here seems to be from:
"... must not end in a hyphen followed by [one or more digits]" ... to ...
"... must not end in a hyphen followed by [anything matching the
version syntax described in section 3.2]"
It's certainly possible to update. Right now, since package names
can't include dots, any normal version syntax is pretty much banned
anyway. Probably the only thing that would be accepted is a whole
integer based version, with no ".x.x" subversioning present.
- Walter
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* Re: [gentoo-pms] ABNF of PMS
2013-07-10 11:02 ` Walter
@ 2013-07-10 11:40 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2013-07-10 13:32 ` Walter
2013-07-10 12:01 ` Ulrich Mueller
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From: Ciaran McCreesh @ 2013-07-10 11:40 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-pms
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On Wed, 10 Jul 2013 18:02:34 +0700
Walter <walter.stanish@gmail.com> wrote:
> It's certainly possible to update. Right now, since package names
> can't include dots, any normal version syntax is pretty much banned
> anyway. Probably the only thing that would be accepted is a whole
> integer based version, with no ".x.x" subversioning present.
You're forgetting letters and suffixes. It's not "pretty much" and
"probably" at all.
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Ciaran McCreesh
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* Re: [gentoo-pms] ABNF of PMS
2013-07-10 11:02 ` Walter
2013-07-10 11:40 ` Ciaran McCreesh
@ 2013-07-10 12:01 ` Ulrich Mueller
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From: Ulrich Mueller @ 2013-07-10 12:01 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-pms
>>>>> On Wed, 10 Jul 2013, Walter wrote:
> I just looked at the PMS URL at http://dev.gentoo.org/~ulm/pms/5/pms.html.
> Is that not the latest version? If not, perhaps it should be taken offline.
It is the latest version approved as a whole by the Gentoo council.
The tightened package name spec has been approved separately though,
so it can be considered part of the official spec.
You can always find the newest version in git:
http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/pms.git
Ulrich
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* Re: [gentoo-pms] ABNF of PMS
2013-07-10 11:40 ` Ciaran McCreesh
@ 2013-07-10 13:32 ` Walter
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From: Walter @ 2013-07-10 13:32 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-pms
>> It's certainly possible to update. Right now, since package names
>> can't include dots, any normal version syntax is pretty much banned
>> anyway. Probably the only thing that would be accepted is a whole
>> integer based version, with no ".x.x" subversioning present.
>
> You're forgetting letters and suffixes. It's not "pretty much" and
> "probably" at all.
I did consider those.
Since they have to be prefixed, they are only relevant in the same
subset of cases, ie. single digit version numbers = rarely.
- Walter
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