This adds an api function for parsing a comma-separated list (csl) of range idents (packages or requests). It required an update to the parser for package_name_not_version, and it includes some intial proptests for parsing valid and invalid range ident comma-separated lists.
The background is that SPI had a csl parser for package requests in another tool that uses spk as a library. spk parsed the package identifiers, and the tool dealt with the list. We hit issue parsing these csl's when some of the requests contained post-releases or multiple version ranges, e.g. pkgA/1,mypkg/2.3.1+r4,pkgB or mypkg/1.2.3,1.3.5,pkgC.
This led to the package_name_not_version parser. We found it wasn't parsing the packages correctly in these situations and could mistake package names for repo names, e.g. mypkg in mypkg/1.2.3,pkgD would be treated as a package called 1.2.3 in the repo mypkg. As part of fixing that, we wanted to move the csl parsing into spk, and add tests for it, So it could be used in future work and all the spk package/request/range ident parsing is kept together.
This adds an api function for parsing a comma-separated list (csl) of range idents (packages or requests). It required an update to the parser for
package_name_not_version, and it includes some intial proptests for parsing valid and invalid range ident comma-separated lists.The background is that SPI had a csl parser for package requests in another tool that uses
spkas a library.spkparsed the package identifiers, and the tool dealt with the list. We hit issue parsing these csl's when some of the requests contained post-releases or multiple version ranges, e.g.pkgA/1,mypkg/2.3.1+r4,pkgBormypkg/1.2.3,1.3.5,pkgC.This led to the
package_name_not_versionparser. We found it wasn't parsing the packages correctly in these situations and could mistake package names for repo names, e.g.mypkginmypkg/1.2.3,pkgDwould be treated as a package called1.2.3in the repomypkg. As part of fixing that, we wanted to move the csl parsing intospk, and add tests for it, So it could be used in future work and all thespkpackage/request/range ident parsing is kept together.