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Tibor Digana commented on MNG-7052:
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I have expected from the design of the pattern {{a-zA-Z0-9-_}} in profile that 
the CLI interference was considered. Obviosly it wasn't and it has to be 
changed. Somebody may want to have an expression in the profile name (or 
characters like '+', '.', '=') and this pattern would become a blocker, and the 
future may bring any requirements from the users.

> Do not allow symbols as first character of identifiers in the POM
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: MNG-7052
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-7052
>             Project: Maven
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: core
>            Reporter: Martin Kanters
>            Priority: Major
>              Labels: up-for-grabs
>             Fix For: 4.0.x-candidate
>
>
> In the {{DefaultModelValidator}} we currently validate identifiers against 
> {{a-zA-Z0-9-_.}} 
> Since Maven also allows operators to be used against an identifier, this can 
> result in bugs or at least unexpected behavior for the user.
> The minus operator can be used to deactivate a certain profile, so an example 
> would be:
> - A project having a profile with the id {{-id-of-profile}}
> - A Maven invocation of {{mvn <goal> -P-id-of-profile}}.
> The release of Maven 4 is a nice opportunity to restrict the first character 
> of an id to be {{a-zA-Z0-9}} . The other characters may still consist of 
> those symbols.
> This should apply to all identifiers that we support. The methods that need 
> attention are:
> {{DefaultModelValidator#validateId}} and 
> {{DefaultModelValidator#validateIdWithWildcards}}.



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