[r6rs-discuss] hello.0.4.2.sls vs. hello-0.4.2.sls

[Anton van Straaten]

John Cowan wrote:
> Mikael Tillenius scripsit:
> 
> 
>>In the non-normative appendices it is recomended to store library source 
>>files with a name like "hello.0.4.2.sls". Isn't "hello-0.4.2.sls" (with 
>>an "-" rather than ".") more common in other contexts?
> 
> 
> Indeed it is, and there is a great deal of archiving software that
> knows about GNU-style conventions, in which the leftmost hyphen that
> is followed by a digit delimits the name (which may contain hyphens)
> from the version/format information (which generally does not).
> See http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/ch19s02.html#naming
> for details.

Thanks.  I think this was an oversight.

Anton