On Sat, 11 Feb 2006 22:28:43 +0100 Grobian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Ok. If we're on the same wave length here, then I think the real | question is here whether we do allow hyphens to be in the os part or | not. If yes, the part till the first hyphen is the arch, and | everything from the hyphen (exclusive) till the end of string is the | os part. If no, an 'escape' method must be defined for the os part. | In both cases it is necessary to state that the arch cannot contain | hyphens in it, and if such restriction is defined, it might be handy | to immediately add spaces and the like to the list.
Standard practice is to define what's allowed, not what's forbidden, and the usual range is a subset of a-zA-Z0-9_+:- . -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Wearer of the shiny hat) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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