[<lm@bi...>]

Me too.

If someone wants to be pedantic then make it be

	package require -exact MySillyName

and let people fix their scripts if they have

	mysillyname
	MYSILLYNAME
	MySillyName

as three different packages.

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 05:46:06PM -0400, Hemang Lavana wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We have been bit by this issue (for our internal customers) several 
> times and continue to do so even today. We have even started creating 
> dummy packages so that both "foo" and "Foo" pkg names work. I would 
> really like to see the [package require <name>] be case-insensitive.
> 
> I hope there won't be any objections if a TIP is proposed for such a 
> change, especially since loading of TM files do not allow case-sensitive 
> pkg names (see TIP 189).
> 
> Hemang.
> Damon Courtney wrote:
> > On Apr 30, 2008, at 4:10 PM, Jeff Hobbs wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> Donald G Porter wrote:
> >>     
> >>> Keith Vetter wrote:
> >>>       
> >>>> Case sensitivily is a nightmare which doesn't benefit anyone.
> >>>>         
> >>> ...and yet a whole world of package authors still will not adopt the
> >>> obvious solution of naming their packages with exclusively lowercase
> >>> characters.  Go figure.
> >>>       
> >> FWIW, the Tcl style guide recommends camel-casing for package  
> >> names.  Of
> >> course, many of the popular packages that have unpredictable casing
> >> existed before that was written (for the 8.0 timeframe).
> >>     
> >
> >      So, just make the package commands do everything case- 
> > insensitive.  Do you really think anyone trying to do:
> >
> > package require bwidget
> >
> > doesn't mean
> >
> > package require BWidget
> >
> > ??
> >
> >      Just make the whole damn thing case-insensitive.  Screw the  
> > package authors.  You can even let "package names" return the name the  
> > author specifies without manipulation if they cry about it, but let  
> > the rest of the package commands not care.  Even as a package author  
> > I've been bitten by this stupidity too many times to count.
> >
> > "Was it Tile or tile?  TreeCtrl or treectrl?  Bwidget, BWidget or  
> > bwidget?" ... open console and try names 'til I get it right.  What a  
> > load.
> >
> > D
> >
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