[Rubygems-developers] Gem name validation

[Luis Lavena]

On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 8:44 AM, John Barnette <jbarnette at gmail.com> wrote:
> All,
>
> I'd like to add an error to Specification#validate if the spec's name
> doesn't match /[a-z][a-z0-9-_]*/i. Any objections? Disregarding obviously
> malformed specs, all current gem names match.
>

No objection from here, that will reduce some gem install issues I got
reported for Ruby Installer project.

Cheers,
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Luis Lavena
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