Re: [BuildStream] Invalid characters for element names

[Tristan Van Berkom <tristan vanberkom codethink co uk>]

On Mon, 2018-12-10 at 10:54 +0100, Jürg Billeter wrote:
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> The proposed subset includes characters that are not allowed on
> Windows, though. Should we reduce the set of valid characters further
> or shall we leave this up to individual projects (if/when we support
> non-WSL Windows at all)?

My 2 cents would be to reduce to a set of valid characters supported on
all known platforms.

I wouldn't go so far as reducing it to an 8.3 character filename length
limit, but we probably aught to also consider a reasonable filename
length limit while we're at it...

Cheers,
    -Tristan