Re: [TCLCORE] Yet more voting. (TIP 339 - Case-Insensitive Package Names)

[Jan N. <nij...@us...>]

 Andreas Kupries wrote:
> Let us see who screams.
> Calling the vote on
>       TIP #339:       Case-Insensitive Package Names

 TIP#339: NO.

I hesitated much about this one, but finally  Jeff's remark
about case insensitive OSes brought me to this. Most
languages (e.g. java) have all lower-case package names.
It just means that on a case-insensitive OS, a mismatch
between file/directory-name and package name will not
hurt, on other systems it will. Keeping the "be strict in what
you generate and generous in what you accept" principle
(in my interpretation) we should continue to accept
Camel-case package names, but from now on only
provide all-lower-case ones.

So, I suggest to make Tcl and Tk provide the "tcl" and "tk"
packages as well as the "Tcl" and "Tk" packages, and
- for Tk - make "package require tk" equivalent to
"package require Tk". Just make all-lowercase package
names the recommended way, but not enforce it. Then
no current packages will break, still eventually every
one can remember the concept. In time, the problem
will fade away.

Regards,
         Jan Nijtmans