
Example: it.bese.arnesi. I'm a little iffy about dots in group names etc. Would it be ok to just replace the dots with underscores?
Frankly, I don't know. What is it you dislike about dots? Mario.

Mario Mommer <mommer@igpm.rwth-aachen.de> writes:
Frankly, I don't know. What is it you dislike about dots?
Linux (and Unix in general, I suspect) does not like it. I think we can force it but I'm suspecting it will blow up somewhere. Actually, I can't even seem to force my Debian here, even with --force-badname. Erik.

Erik Enge <erik@nittin.net> writes:
Mario Mommer <mommer@igpm.rwth-aachen.de> writes:
Frankly, I don't know. What is it you dislike about dots?
Linux (and Unix in general, I suspect) does not like it. I think we can force it but I'm suspecting it will blow up somewhere.
Actually, I can't even seem to force my Debian here, even with --force-badname.
Ah - no. Then I think we shouldn't allow them. Maybe the best thing is to ask for a name change, pointing out that issue. Mario.

Mario Mommer <mommer@igpm.rwth-aachen.de> writes:
Ah - no. Then I think we shouldn't allow them. Maybe the best thing is to ask for a name change, pointing out that issue.
OK, good point. Perhaps we should mention this on the project-info.html page. Erik.
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