dots in charm names (shelr.tv)

[Gustavo Niemeyer]

On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Abel Deuring
<abel.deuring at canonical.com> wrote:
> 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,
> neither is importing from LP an issue with shelr.tv. The problem we have
> with this charm is that we use MongoDB records like {'_id':
> 'cs:<long-path>/shelr.tv', ...}

This charm *has never existed in the store*. You wouldn't have
problems if you took that into account.

Even pretending to users that it exists is already an issue.

(...)
> So we have a possible name inconsistency between LP and the charm
> store... Can we assume that dots (and perhaps other other symbols) are

There's no inconsistency. The charm store is the only authoritative
place for charms. If it's not in the store, it doesn't exist. Of
course, we can have many charm branches in Launchpad, but that doesn't
necessarily mean it's a charm in the store, much like if you find a
branch in Launchpad you shouldn't assume it is an Ubuntu package.


gustavo @ http://niemeyer.net