KDE no longer supprts underscore in host names

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Sat Jan 16 05:21:18 UTC 2010


Rex Dieter wrote:

> Patrick Boutilier wrote:
> 
>> Kind of an odd decision I think.
>> 
>> http://two-or-more.blogspot.com/2010/01/kde-team-removes-support-for-
> underscore.html
> 
> It's possible this is a change coming from qt (qt-4.6.0 specifically, a
> prereq for kde-4.4).

Yes, it comes from this Qt commit:
http://qt.gitorious.org/qt/qt/commit/b6b12bc6b8296d7e199cab0ece35c9eb9ae7fe64

It's quite easy to add the underscore to the allowed characters in 
qt_check_std3rules and I'm tempted to just do that, standards be darned. 
It's more important to interoperate with the real world and this is a 
regression.

        Kevin Kofler



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