Reverse domain application names

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I’m sat with @codygarver discussing snapping elementary apps. One of the issues that has arisen is the restrictions in the name field in snapcraft.yaml. elementary enforce reverse domain names for their applications - such as io.elementary.calculator, rather than just calculator. However snapcraft doesn’t accept the fullstop in the name.

Is there a good reason we cannot open up fullstops to be allowed in application names in the snapcraft yaml?

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Here’s the relevant lines in the appstream spec doc: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/chap-Metadata.html#tag-id-generic

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The calculator binary is io.elementary.calculator?

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Yes, that’s the binary that gets built and launched from the desktop file.