Module names

Eric Sandall eric at sandall.us
Fri Jul 8 15:52:57 UTC 2005


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On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Jon South wrote:
> I've thought of that too, and I think removing the case sensitivity for
> tab completion and search functions would be best, since no two modules
> have the same name, but different case. Many of the modules are given
> the mixed case based on the preference of the project (usually), but
> that still makes finding modules difficult...so I think the sensitivity
> compromise might be best...but not sure what everyone else thinks about
> that.

That would work except that, for some packages, the case
differentiates two different packages (e.g. GIT and git, thanks to
tchan for pointing that out :)) and you'd be 'hiding' part of the
utility of *nix filesystems (that case matters).

- -sandalle

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