Re: upper case latter in package name [was Re: ncarray 1.0.2 released]

[Orion Poplawski]

On 02/19/2014 09:23 AM, Alexander Barth wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> It seems that pkg cannot install a package with an upper case letter in the
> filename. Is this a bug in "pkg" or intended?
> 
>>> pkg install dummyPackage-1.0.0.tar.gz
> package name 'dummypackage' doesn't correspond to its filename
> 'dummyPackage-1.0.0.tar'
> error: called from 'install' in file
> /home/abarth/opt/octave-3.8.0/share/octave/3.8.0/m/pkg/private/install.m near
> line 119, column 11
> 
> Thanks and regards
> Alexander

Well, in pkg.m parsing the DESCRIPTION file:

  desc.name = tolower (desc.name);

And in all dep handling:

  deps = split_by (tolower (depends), ",");

So as written it seems like all octave packages really should be all lower
case.  Or we need another tolower() in the install check.

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