Package names and capitalization. Why?

[Jos Vos]

On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 11:41:17AM +0900, Naoki wrote:

> Is there any (good) reason for having uppercase characters in RPM file
> names?  If not, how about a policy against it?

I think the uppercase chars are usually taken over if the package
name is explicitly written that way in all appearances, so when
the tar-file is calles FooBar-1.0.tar.gz, the name always appears
capitalized that way in documentation/web pages, etc.

I'm pretty sure this "rule of thumb" does not apply to one or more
of the capatilized packages you gave, but this is what I remember
from earlier discussions.

Maybe this is somewhere written done, maybe it's not.

> Xaw3d is great and all but does it deserve a capital letter over
> xorg-x11 ?

Well, XFree86 had two capitals ;-).

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