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From: bdawes_at_[hidden]
Date: 2008-06-28 16:31:21


Author: bemandawes
Date: 2008-06-28 16:31:20 EDT (Sat, 28 Jun 2008)
New Revision: 46825
URL: http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/changeset/46825

Log:
Try to further simplify the directory and file naming wording.
Text files modified:
   website/public_html/beta/development/requirements.html | 13 +++++++------
   1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

Modified: website/public_html/beta/development/requirements.html
==============================================================================
--- website/public_html/beta/development/requirements.html (original)
+++ website/public_html/beta/development/requirements.html 2008-06-28 16:31:20 EDT (Sat, 28 Jun 2008)
@@ -412,16 +412,17 @@
               Filenames</h3>
 
               <p>Naming requirements ensure file and directory names are
- relatively portable:</p>
+ relatively portable, including to ISO 9660:1999 and other
+ relatively limited file systems.</p>
 
               <ul>
- <li>File and directory names must contain only
+ <li>File and directory names include only
                 <strong>lowercase</strong> ASCII letters (<code>&quot;a&quot;</code>-<code>&quot;z&quot;</code>),
                 numbers (<code>&quot;0&quot;</code>-<code>&quot;9&quot;</code>), and underscores (<code>&quot;_&quot;</code>).
- Note that spaces are not allowed.</li>
- <li>File names, but not directory names, may include one dot
- character (<code>&quot;.&quot;</code>); it must not be the first or last
- character..</li>
+ Spaces are not allowed.</li>
+ <li>File names may include one dot character (<code>&quot;.&quot;</code>),
+ but it must not be the first or last character..</li>
+ <li>Directory names must not include dot characters (<code>&quot;.&quot;</code>).</li>
                 <li>The first character of both directory and file names must be
                 alphabetic.</li>
                 <li>The maximum length of directory and file names is 31


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