D-Bus Spec change: dashes in interface names

[Tako Schotanus]

Thiago Macieira wrote:
> The D-Bus Specification says this about interfaces:
>
> ==========
> * Each element must only contain the ASCII characters "[A-Z][a-z][0-9]_" 
> and must not begin with a digit. 
> ==========
>
> DNS Domain names in ASCII are restricted to LDH - Letters, Digits, 
> Hyphens. However, the spec forbids interfaces like 
> org.my-organisation.Interface. On the other hand, underscores are 
> permitted. Is there any strong reason why this is so?
>
> If not, I ask for the change to be implemented as soon as possible, before 
> 1.0.
>
>   
>   
Can't say I know they answer to that, but I did remember a thread about 
this some timie ago, so here you go

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.freedesktop.dbus/3123/focus=3127

Cheers,
 -Tako