Module names

w9ya@arrl.net w9ya at arrl.net
Sat Jul 9 01:06:40 UTC 2005


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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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Um,,,,,,for the end user please see "man grep" and use the -i option. <-
No more worries.






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