Application names starting with digits

Nate Finch nate.finch at canonical.com
Fri Dec 2 12:43:00 UTC 2016


There's no technical reason for the restriction, AFAIK.  I believe it's
just aesthetic.

On Fri, Dec 2, 2016, 5:50 AM James Page <james.page at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> Hi All
>
> Is there a specific rationale for application names being limited to not
> starting with a digit?  I get why they can't end with one but I don't see
> why juju should place the same restriction on the start of an app name?
> Example (where we tripped over this):
>
>    juju deploy ubuntu 6wind-virtual-accelerator
>
> (and ubuntu just to test the name out of a proposed charm where we had
> testing problems due to this limitation)
>
> Thoughts?
>
> James
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