On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 09:06, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 08:36:27AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote: > >On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 03:55, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> I can't think of any good reason for this package name to be all upper > >> case. I've changed it to lowercase. > > > >Well, it is an anacronym. > > Like, say, gcc, cvs, or gdb?
Which isn't to say that they are doing the 'right thing'. The last time I looked the english language convention for anacronyms was all-caps. Anyway, I didn't mean to start a rabbit hole, so I'll bow out, I've said my bit. Rob -- --- GPG key available at: http://users.bigpond.net.au/robertc/keys.txt. ---
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