On 12/02/2016 10:28 AM, Ulrich Mueller 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)? > > If we allow uppercase, then should we also allow two packages in the > tree whose names differ only in character case?
If Gentoo chose to perfectly match GNU's naming with GCC, then the ebuild should be GCC-<version>.ebuild. The reason is simple. GNU says GCC refers to the GNU Compiler Collection, and gcc refers to the GNU C compiler. Personally, I've disliked that differentiation. Most people don't pay close enough attention to such things. For example, how many people think iOS and IOS are the same thing? -Nicholas Vinson > > Ulrich >
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