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[Janos Gyerik <info@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Are you sure comma will be future-proof-enough though? Just a thought,
I dunno...

Thanks Rafal for the heads up about upcoming changes, it helps!

Janos


On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 10:14 PM, Rafał Cieślak
<rafalcieslak256@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello,
> just a short note concerning separators ins .accomplishment files.
>
>>
>> > Is a single space the defined separator for the dependencies list? Should we
>> > accept other cases too?
>>
>> To be safe, I think we should accept white-space as the separator: \s+
>
>
> There are several fields in accomplishment metadata that may have
> several values. These are: "depends", "category", "needs-information".
> All of these can have one, as well as many values. The point is that
> at the moment separators used in these fields are not consistent:
>     - "depends" uses a space (e.g.
> "ubuntu-community/registered-on-launchpad
> ubuntu-community/ubuntu-member")
>    - "needs-information" also uses spaces (e.g. "launchpad-email
> askubuntu-login")
>    - "category" uses a comma (e.g "General:Launchpad, Development") -
> mainly because category names can contain spaces.
>
> We aim to unify this, and it has been decided that commas will be used
> everywhere (it is simply much clearer this way), and this will be soon
> fixed both in ubuntu-community collection and in the accomplishments
> daemon. So the reason for this e-mail is just to make you aware of
> this upcoming change, to avoid confusion caused by a new separator :-)
> I hope this will not be a problem. And hopefully this will be the last
> major change in .accomplishment metadata format.
>
> Also, thanks Gabriel for getting involved, it's great to see new
> people contributing! :-)
>
> Rafał Cieślak



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