[OpenAFS-devel] DRAFT: New sysname standard

[Phil.Moore@morganstanley.com]

>>>>> "Art" == Art Freeman <ajf@lehman.COM> writes:

Art> Why not use the operating system version string supplied by the
Art> vendor without modifications?  This would prevent the ambiguities
Art> you referred to.

Readability.  My eyes start to water when I read the intermixed _ and
. in the names.

For *most* of the sysname values, the dots can be removed, and there
are very few cases where we would be required to add them.