Module names

[Eric Sandall]

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On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Jon South wrote:
> Zbigniew Łuszpiński wrote:
>> I use lunar since few months (migrated from Mandrakes: 6 to 10.1) and as new
>> user I can tell you that module names in general are the same as tarballs
>> names. Thanks to this it is _easier_ to install modules. There are many other
>> things which are very unconfortable in SGML/Lunar. The module names are not a
>> problem at all.
>>
>> zbiggy
>
> This is what bothers me; no one can judge what is or is not a problem
> for everyone. Even me being a developer, I find some module names
> frustrating like MPlayer -- I'm used to the binary name being lowercase,
> not uppercase...Plus, how is an end-user supposed to know that the
> tarball is uppercase? Also, some modules are a certain case because the
> binary is in a different case (e.g. BitchX) which is exactly opposite of
> using the tarball name, BitchX's tarball doesnt even contain BitchX. So
> imo, the module names issue is a valid one, and I dont plan to ignore
> anyone about it.

That's why I proposed all lower-case, but your examples are more
corner cases that help my point rather than the general case, which
others here seem to think matching the tarball is the Right Thing(TM).

- -sandalle

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