Puppet

We do currently accept underscores Oliver, but you’re right, we don’t accept hyphens or periods.

Does supporting underscores give you enough functionality?

Our app names can have underscores in them, but releases usually have hyphens e.g. 2011-R1.

It is good to know that underscores are accepted as that will immediately reduce some of my hacks but hyphens would be great. Periods would be the icing on the cake.

I would love to see periods in environments so I could namespace the dozen or so environments we have going at a time.

Looking for more info here still.

We’ve generally had a lot of issues with hyphen support due to Ruby not supporting them in symbol names, thus the hesitance to add hyphens.

It’s a similar situation for me. We’ve automated the environment manipulation part so far out of normal users' reach that they never interact with environments directly anyway, so the character set is not such a limitation anymore.

I’d be happy for this to stay open but I’ve got many other features/bugs that I actually care about so I’m not sad about losing one of my babies so to speak ;)

We would use it to map environments to git branches that typically contain slashes, at the moment we use a wrapper script that mangles any punctuation to underscores. That works quite well though, but if you consider adding more characters slashes would be nice for git branch mapping.