[csw-maintainers] Package length again

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Phil,

Am 19.11.2010 um 18:19 schrieb Philip Brown <phil at bolthole.com>:

> On 11/19/10, Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org> wrote:
>> Hi Phil,
>> 
>> Anfang der weitergeleiteten E-Mail:
>>> -if [[ ${#software} -gt 20 ]] ; then errmsg $f: software name greater than
>>> 20 chars ; fi
>>> -if [[ ${#pkgname} -gt 20 ]] ; then errmsg $f: pkg name greater than 20
>>> chars; fi
>>> +if [[ ${#software} -gt 29 ]] ; then errmsg $f: software name greater than
>>> 29 chars ; fi
>>> +if [[ ${#pkgname} -gt 32 ]] ; then errmsg $f: pkg name greater than 32
>>> chars; fi
>> 
>> Waitaminute... When the package is called
>>  CSWpm(max 27 character)
>> then the package name will be
>>  pm_(max 27 characters)
>> leading to a 30 characters long catalog name. I guess the fixing on 29
>> catalog name was a it too fast...
> 
> What.. you are suggesting that we now LOWER it, because perl package
> maintainers cant figure out that they need to shorten their software
> name by one char? :-}
> We certainly cannot raise it further in any way
> 
> I think that the max allowable limits, simply state "max
> allowable",and that is fine. If there are collections of packages
> (such as perl modules) that have naming conventions beyond our global
> standard ones, that is something to be worked out for that area. It
> does not need to affect our global limits.

I am suggesting to raise the catalogname length limit to 30 characters.

Best regards -- Dago