[racket-dev] Planet 2 package names

Yay!

Carl Eastlund


On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 3:10 PM, Jay McCarthy <jay.mccarthy at gmail.com> wrote:

> That's a typo in the docs. Numbers are allowed.
>
> Jay
>
> On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Carl Eastlund <cce at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
> > Currently (the latest nightly build), the names of Planet 2 packages are
> > restricted to use only the characters a-z, A-Z, _, and -.  The current
> set
> > of Racket collections, on the other hand, uses a-z, 0-9, and -.  Planet 1
> > also has several packages using 0-9.  We need to add digits to the set of
> > valid names if we want 2htdp, algol60, planet2 (itself!), r5rs, and r6rs
> to
> > be "package-friendly".  I know if I were to release a package named after
> > ACL2 somehow, I'd be hard-pressed to figure out what to do with the "2".
> >
> > Planet 1 packages and Racket collections also don't use A-Z (with one or
> two
> > exceptions on Planet).  In theory, we could disallow those characters and
> > gain compatibility with case-insensitive mediums such as the default Mac
> OS
> > X filesystem.  I'm not particularly attached to this second proposal, but
> > since it leads to potential errors I thought it was worth bringing up.
>  If
> > we leave both cases in, we at least need to make sure programs that run
> on
> > Windows and Unix don't break on Mac due to package names conflicting on
> the
> > filesystem.
> >
> > Carl Eastlund
> >
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