[racket-dev] Planet 2 package names

On the second point, I think it may be a good idea to disallow upper case.

I presume that Eli and Matthew would have good recommendations about this?

Jay

On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Carl Eastlund <cce at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
> 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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