Windows won't be bothered with the colon (drive delimiter)?
On 4/27/2010 8:24 AM, Tim Quinn wrote:
> A possible enhancement for GlassFish 3.1 is to support application
> versioning
> (http://wiki.glassfish.java.net/Wiki.jsp?page=ApplicationVersioning).
>
> The proposal so far has used the semi-colon (';') as the separator
> between the application name and the version.
>
> We are considering changing this to the colon (':') which would give
> us two advantages:
>
> 1. It is much closer to the maven scheme which uses colons as
> separators in its coordinate strings.
>
> 2. Using the semi-colon would require users to enclose the
> name;version string in single quotes on some OS shells to prevent the
> shell from interpreting the semi-colon as a separator between two OS
> commands.
>
> Please let us know if you see other advantages or disadvantages of the
> change.
>
> - Tim
>
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