Hi Gil,
As Rick has already mentioned it is only the filenames and the top-level
directory name in the source package that is being proposed to be all
lowercase.
The reason for following this convention is that on platforms like
Debian and HomeBrew (one of the the package managers on MacOS), the
filename of the source package or the top-level directory name is used
as the package name and version when building a binary package for the
respective platforms.
For ooRexx to be accepted in official platform repositories these
conventions need to be followed otherwise ooRexx is likely to be
rejected from inclusion. And as you know, getting ooRexx into official
repositories is one of the goals of RexxLA.
Cheers, Mark
On 14/4/23 22:32, Gilbert Barmwater 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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