[racket-dev] Planet 2 package names

From: Danny Yoo (dyoo at cs.wpi.edu)
Date: Mon Dec 3 15:48:53 EST 2012

> 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.
>
>
One of those exceptions is probably UPPERCASE.plt,


http://planet.racket-lang.org/display.ss?package=UPPERCASE.plt&owner=dyoo

but as it's intended only as a joke, please ignore it.  :)
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