On 14 September 2010 16:21, Daniel Barlow <[email protected]> wrote: > Apologies for the complete lack of references headers in this mail, but > I'm not subscribed to asdf-devel and only see this message in the > common-lisp.net archive. > > On 9/13/10 Sep 13 -8:05 AM, Serhiy Yakovyn wrote: > > Is this done intentionally? > > Robert Goldman rpgoldman at sift.info wrote: > > Yes, this is done intentionally. Canonical (i.e., what you get when you > > translate a symbol) names for ASDF systems (and other ASDF components) > > are downcased. > > > I /suspect/ (I am not privy to the intentions of the original developer) > > that this is because the downcased names --- this policy is applied not > > just to systems, but to other components as well --- map better to the > way people use modern file-systems. > > This is, or was once, or should be, a matter of record. I don't know > where asdf is currently hosted nor how far back the revision history > there goes, but if you look at a sufficiently ancient version of > asdf/README you should find something like > > 122 *** Component Attributes > 123 > 124 **** A name (required) > 125 > 126 This is a string or a symbol. If a symbol, its name is taken and > 127 lowercased. The name must be a suitable value for the :name initarg > 128 to make-pathname in whatever filesystem the system is to be found. > 129 > 130 The lower-casing-symbols behaviour is unconventional, but was selected > 131 after some consideration. Observations suggest that the type of > 132 systems we want to support either have lowercase as customary case > 133 (unix, mac, windows) or silently convert lowercase to uppercase > 134 (lpns), so this makes more sense than attempting to use :case :common, > 135 which is reported not to work on some implementations > Thanks, Dan. I committed these paragraphs to the current ASDF manual.
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