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[Doug Barton]

On 05/02/2011 14:00, Gabor PALI wrote:
>   On 05/02/11 21:40, Doug Barton wrote:
>> my understanding is that we are not using upper-case letters for new
>> portnames. Is my understanding incorrect?
>
> Although Section 5.2.5 of the Porter's Handbook says "No uppercase names
> for single programs" [1] (i.e. your understanding is correct) I have met
> numerous ports in the Ports Collection ignoring this

A) Past bad examples are never a good reason for making new mistakes, 
which is why
B) I specified new ports in my question

> So when I started to manage
> Haskell ports ("hs-") I decided to do the same, because there many
> Haskell Cabal packages [2] with case-sensitive names so translating them
> bluntly to lowercase may cause collisions

Has this happened in practice, if so how often? If not, how often do you 
think it might happen in the future? My personal preference would be to 
follow the guidelines generally, and deal with exceptions as needed, but 
I'm certainly willing to listen to reasons why this is a bad idea. :)


Doug

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