Re: xfree packages

["Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>]

At 08:29 PM 4/10/2002, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 09:47:31AM +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
> >"Robert Collins" <robert.collins@itdomain.com.au> writes:
> >
> >> Setup is case insensitive to package names. I don't see any technical
> >> issue either way.
> >
> >Me neither, I only see a social issue: it's just plain irritating for
> >people?
> >
> >   tar xjf releases/mysTABTAB <beep> ^U
> >   tar xjf releases/MyTABTAB <beep> ^U
> >
> >etc, aargh?  It's ever more annoying when you're using wget, and try
> >to guess the name.
>
>I thought I'd replied to this but I guess I hadn't.
>
>I really don't think we should use tab completion as a justification for
>picking package names.  The package names should reflect what the
>authors want to call the package.  If the name of the package is XFree86,
>it should be called XFree86.  Ditto, TeX, or any other package.
>
>AFAICT, both Red Hat and Debian allow upper/lower case, so there's no
>reason for us to restrict things.


I went so far as to type a response and then trash it, since I thought it
was getting off-topic for this list.  But thinking again, it supports 
Chris's position, even though it has been mentioned many a time
on the Cygwin list.  I'm thinking of the 'completion-ignore-case' option
in bash.  Seems to me that this addresses the concern.  

I'm certainly all for mixed-case names.





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