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Re: AC_INIT translates PACKAGE to lower case
- From: Akim Demaille <akim at epita dot fr>
- To: Ralf Corsepius <corsepiu at faw dot uni-ulm dot de>
- Cc: Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g at lrde dot epita dot fr>, Russ Allbery <rra at stanford dot edu>, Autoconf List <autoconf at gnu dot org>, Automake List <automake at gnu dot org>, Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- Date: 01 Feb 2002 12:33:09 +0100
- Subject: Re: AC_INIT translates PACKAGE to lower case
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>>>>> "Ralf" == Ralf Corsepius <corsepiu@faw.uni-ulm.de> writes:
Ralf> Am Don, 2002-01-31 um 22.31 schrieb Alexandre Duret-Lutz:
>> >>> "Ralf" == Ralf Corsepius <corsepiu@faw.uni-ulm.de> writes:
>>
Ralf> Am Don, 2002-01-31 um 17.27 schrieb Russ Allbery:
>> [...]
>>
>> >> Why are you lowercasing the package name?
>>
>> For the same reason a leading `GNU ' is stripped: because for most
>> packages this is the way to transform a package name into a tarball
>> name.
>>
>> `GNU Autoconf' => `autoconf'
Ralf> Hmm, do I really need to like this?
Ralf> IMHO, this is equally bad and error-prone as lowercasing. Why
Ralf> not letting program authors/maintain decide upon this?
What the heck is your point?
I don't care you like it or not. What matters is that *you* can do
what you want, which is the case. What is your point about default
values? As `defaults' they will not please everybody, and never meant
to.
Open your eyes: we never impose anything to anyone. You're fighting
for your notion of default to be the new default. That makes us
advance _a lot_ sure!