From: Donald G P. <don...@ni...> - 2012-12-19 13:17:04
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On 12/19/2012 07:44 AM, Pietro Cerutti wrote: > As a slightly unrelated note, would it be possible to make the package > names consistent on ftp://ftp.tcl.tk/pub/tcl/tcl8_6/ ? You're talking about the distributed subdirectory names under pkgs? We can appeal to the upstreams to change their practices. In turn, they will likely appeal to TEA support to change its incentives. We're all a pretty incestuous bunch, so as long as there's not some objection I can't imagine, I believe we can move in that direction. Not in time for the 8.6.0 release though. > Most are named after<name><version>, while tdbcsqlite3 has a dash > between name and 1.0.0rc4. The dash has to be there since the package made the unfortunate choice of ending its name with a number. This suggests to me that the common convention that could be established would be to always include the dash. There's some precedent for that, since the names of Tcl Module files are defined to include a dash in the analogous location. -- | Don Porter Applied and Computational Mathematics Division | | don...@ni... Information Technology Laboratory | | http://math.nist.gov/~DPorter/ NIST | |______________________________________________________________________| |