Now that the new setup is here...

[Christopher Faylor]

On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 10:24:18PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
>>Btw, I'm adding a new feature to upset:
>>
>>verpat:  (.*-\d+dpi)(.*)(\.tar.bz2)
>>	 ^^^^^^^^^^  ^^  ^^^^^^^^^
>>	     $1      $2      $3
>>
>>$1 = prefix
>>$2 = version
>>$3 = suffix
>>
>>That won't help setup.ini-less installs much but, er...
>
>I don't grok regex's very well, but have we dropped support for tar.gz?

.tar.gz is deprecated but that's kinda besides the point.  If you wanted
to use .tar.gz, you'd change the above to use .tar.gz.

This is just a field for setup.hint so that we don't have to tell
people to rename their scripts when there is a clear precedent for
some version numbering that can't be automatically grokked.

Like everything in setup.hint it should be used only when absolutely
necessary.

> Also, how many special cases are we going to have?  I understand 
>wanting to keep xfree-fonts-75dpi-VER-REL instead of
>
>xfree-fonts_75dpi-VER-REL or
>xfree-fonts-dpi75-VER-REL
>
>but are we venturing down a path we don't really want to follow?

I was just using this as an (incorrect, actually) example.  If someone
is comfortable with an underscore, that's fine.  This would probably be
more useful for something like contrib/tei-xml/tei-xml-p4-1-src.tar.bz2 .

cgf