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Re: Formal definition of App ID

 

On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Ted Gould <ted@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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>
> When you say letters do you mean [a-zA-Z] or do you allow Unicode letters
> as well?  Also, it was a little bit interesting to me that the version only
> allows numbers as the versions of our core apps are not doing that
> currently.  I'm fine with that restriction, but it's very "non-Debian" way
> of doing versions.  Does anyone see an issue with loosing things like
> "+devbranch14" ?
>

Non unicode characters, [a-zA-Z] only. This restriction (as well as the
version one) is mostly inherited from the original Software Center
Appstore, but as I said before, we should be able to rework them as needed
for Click Package apps.

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