[Nix-dev] Nixpkgs versioning

[Tomasz Czyż]

Vladimir: true.

There is any rule for transforming app name + version to attribute name?
underscores and dashes are ok in attribute names but versions mostly use
dots (not sure if replacing them with underscore or dash is a good idea as
those chars are used in version strings as well).

I assume adding/allowing more chars in attribute names will make parsing
more difficult, it that the limiting factor?

2016-03-30 13:41 GMT+00:00 Vladimír Čunát <vcunat at gmail.com>:

> On 03/30/2016 12:02 PM, Peter Simons wrote:
> > Besides, I thought the universally agreed best way forward was to drop
> > the notion of installing packages "by name" from the CLI anyway?
>
> True, we push towards using attribute names instead. There can be
> version embedded in attribute names, e.g. we have llvm_37, but `@` makes
> little sense in there...
>
> --Vladimir
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