Module names

Jasper Huijsmans jasper at lunar-linux.org
Fri Jul 8 18:17:28 UTC 2005


Op vr, 08-07-2005 te 13:07 -0500, schreef Jon South:
> 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.
> 

"teTeX" annoys me to no end, even though it's the official name and it
even kinda makes sense. I'm afraid it's probably a matter of personal
taste.

	Jasper



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