dots in charm names (shelr.tv)

[Clint Byrum]

Excerpts from Abel Deuring's message of 2013-03-26 08:47:25 -0700:
> On 26.03.2013 15:41, Gustavo Niemeyer wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 11:35 AM, Abel Deuring
> > <abel.deuring at canonical.com> wrote:
> >> well, we retrieve the data about charms from Launchpad. My question was
> >> simply: Is it worth to change charmworld so that it can properly deal
> >> with the name shelr.tv, or should the name be fixed because it might
> >> also be unusable in juju-core?
> > 
> > That's exactly the point I'm trying to make: everything that is not in
> > the charm store is not usable. It should filter based on whether the
> > charm exists or not, rather than whether it can import it from
> > Launchpad directly.
> 
> Divergence betwen LP and the charm store might be an issue (though
> charmworld checks the main store too), but that's not my main point,

Divergence is happening because the tools charmers use to validate charms
are not validating name properly. Its a pretty simple fix. charm proof
should produce an error with anything invalid in the name. That will
prevent charmers from promulgating broken charms in the future.