Gil, the setting he's proposing to change only affects the names of the
built packages, nothing else.

Rick

On Fri, Apr 14, 2023 at 9:03 AM Gilbert Barmwater <gi...@bellsouth.net>
wrote:

> I think this needs more discussion before making, what seems on the
> surface to be, a "trivial" change.
>
> When RexxLA received the source for Object Rexx from IBM, there was
> quite a bit of discussion on what the project should be called with the
> eventual decision being "ooRexx".  I'm sure the archives have the pro's
> and con's but there were reasons for the choice. It was definitely NOT
> arbitrary.
>
> I understand the need for all lower case for *nix systems but isn't the
> "build" that one downloads from the "Files" section of Source Forge just
> a "container"?  Couldn't the "contents" have all lower case names and
> wouldn't that meet the *nix requirements?  I realize I'm showing my
> ignorance here so please help me understand if this is a "must" or just
> a "preference".
>
> Gil
>
> On 4/14/2023 7:27 AM, Rony G. Flatscher wrote:
> > On 14.04.2023 09:44, P.O. Jonsson wrote:
> >> While working on creating a source package for #1854 I realized that
> >> all our artifacts starts off with ooRexx-,  in CamelFont. It comes
> >> from this line in CMakeLists.txt
> >>
> >> set(CPACK_PACKAGE_NAME "ooRexx")
> >>
> >> Since we have a requirement in the build to keep all other parts in
> >> lowercase (example -DOS_DIST=centos9 etc) this is a bit odd. I would
> >> like to change this to
> >>
> >> set(CPACK_PACKAGE_NAME "oorexx")
> >>
> >> Any objections?
> >
> > Not at all, it seems that all lowercase is the norm on Unix systems
> > and necessary for distributions. Please go for it!
> >
> > ---rony
> >
> >
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