On Mon, Apr 01, 2019 at 02:57:31PM +1000, Allan McRae <al...@archlinux.org> wrote: > > "TODO bikeshed the separator" > > > > We're in the rather unfortunate position that neither of our database > > formats can handle multiple arbitrary filenames on a single line > > without escaping. We can use -> in PKGBUILDs if you like, but for > > .PKGINFO and desc files I would pick a single character to make > > escaping easier. > > I went for two character, in a combination that is unlikely to be used > in the name of the alternative symlink itself. That way it is a split on > first occurrence. I realize that someone will try an alternative with > that pair of characters in their name... so yes, that needs addressed. > My other thought was "::" like we use to split other things in makepkg. > Would that be a compromise - two characters, but one?
How about /./? I've seen this being used by jailkit. A value could look like "foo/./usr/bin/foo-v1". This should be easy to escape/handle and it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to ever use this syntax in a real path. Florian
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