#14141: Guide should say what characters are valid in variant names --------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: ryandesign@macports.org | Owner: markd@macports.org Type: defect | Status: reopened Priority: Normal | Milestone: Website & Documentation Component: guide | Version: 1.6.0 Resolution: | Keywords: --------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Changes (by ryandesign@macports.org): * status: closed => reopened * resolution: fixed => * summary: Variant names cannot contain hyphens; guide should mention this => Guide should say what characters are valid in variant names Comment: Thanks for your quick response! But actually, rather than just mention that the hyphen is invalid, let's mention what is valid. All our ports' variant names right now use just the letters A-Z and a-z, numbers 0-9 and the underscore, so I think that's the list of valid characters we should publish in the guide. It's still worth mentioning specifically that the hyphen is invalid, since people seem to want to use that, and a handful of ports' variant names still use the hyphen; I'll work with those port maintainers to remove those. Related: `port lint` should warn on illegal variant names; see #14147. -- Ticket URL: <http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/ticket/14141#comment:2> MacPorts </projects/macports> Ports system for Mac OS