Re: "legal" distribution names

[email protected] ((Andreas J. Koenig)) Sat, 06 Feb 2010 08:43:18 +0100

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>>>>> On Fri, 5 Feb 2010 15:07:19 -0500, David Golden <[email protected]> said:

  > That's a reasonable test -- though I think it's not as liberal as
  > PAUSE itself.  I don't have an example off the top of my head though.

We're just lucky that the community has always uploaded pretty sane
filenames (thanks to MakeMaker, I suppose). Pause does not enforce that,
it only pays attention to the filename extension and that a very limited
class of characters is used.

-- 
andreas