Re: "legal" distribution names
[email protected] (David Golden)
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On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 2:43 AM, Andreas J. Koenig <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>> 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. There are the unfortunate "-0.01.tar.gz" tarballs, though. David