On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 1:28 PM, Ulrich Mueller <u...@gentoo.org> wrote: >>>>>> On Fri, 2 Dec 2016, Mike Gilbert wrote: > >> The devmanual states: >> The name section should contain only lowercase non-accented letters, >> the digits 0-9, hyphens, underscores and plus characters. Uppercase >> characters are strongly discouraged, but technically valid. > >> https://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/file-format/index.html > > >> Why are uppercase characters strongly discouraged? > >> Wouldn't it make sense to follow upstream's naming convention? > > No, because even for the most common packages it would be hard to > guess what the actual convention is. For example, is it GCC (used on > its web page and in documentation) or gcc (name of the command and > displayed by gcc --version)?
As a developer I would tend to match the tarball naming to minimize the amount of customization needed in SRC_URI and avoid having to redefine S. > If we allow uppercase, then should we also allow two packages in the > tree whose names differ only in character case? Do we prohibit this currently? Anyway, this seems like a pretty unlikely thing to have happen.
