On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 7:21 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
> Port names containing uppercase letters are fine. If that reflects the 
> original software name most accurately, feel free to use that.
>
> Years ago there was a MacPorts base bug that made ports whose names contain 
> uppercase letters not uninstall properly if the user did not specify the case 
> correctly on the command line, but that has been fixed for a very long time 
> and is no longer a concern. More recently, binary packages would not be 
> downloaded if the case did not match on the command line, but that's also 
> been fixed for several MacPorts versions already.

I think that I had problems with "casing" either with variants or with
port_select. Is that something that is considered worth fixing (making
case independent) as well?

Mojca
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