Module names

[Eric Sandall]

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On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Terry Chan wrote:
> Renaming modules to all lowercase is NOT going to happen.  So feel IGNORED.

It /is/ a lot of work. :)

> Especially in the case of GIT and git.  I purposely renamed the ancient
> git module GIT for Gnu Interactive Tool, so that Linus Torvalds new "git"
> would become the moonbase "git" module.  It was either that or we just
> drop the older GIT completely from moonbase.

I wasn't aware of why there was a GIT, but was just using the name as
an example.

> In most of the other cases we (as in Lunar) go with whatever the source
> code authors name their tarballs. Tell those authors to rename the tarballs
> to all lowercase.

That's a convenience for the developers, I was thinking more (IMO) how
to make it convenient for the users.

- -sandalle

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