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

[Alexander Barth]

Dear Orion,

Thank you for filling the bug report.

Regards,

Alex

On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 7:07 PM, Orion Poplawski <address@hidden> wrote:

On 02/20/2014 06:35 AM, Alexander Barth wrote:

Am 19.02.2014 17:31 schrieb "Orion Poplawski" <address@hidden

<mailto:address@hidden>>:

 >
 > 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 <http://desc.name> = tolower (desc.name <http://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.

Does somebody knows the reason for not supporting uppercase letters in the
package filename? pkg could just take the name as it is without convertion to
lowercase.

Thanks and regards,
Alexander

Filed https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?41691 to see if we can get some more traction on this issue.

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