Re: PKGNAME/directory name case guidance

["J. Lewis Muir" <jlmuir%imca-cat.org@localhost>]

On 03/25, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> Am Fri, Mar 25, 2022 at 10:51:41AM +0100 schrieb Thomas Klausner:
> > I've been asked to rename the packages to lower case names (sigil,
> > pageedit).
> 
> I would prefer new packages to be consistently lower case, but I also
> don't see any reason to introduce artifical pain by renaming existing
> packages, both in terms of package name and directory. It just doesn't
> add much value.

I too would wish for all-lowercase names.  And while I agree that a
rename introduces pain, I would say that it definitely has value: it
would make the package names consistent within pkgsrc.

BTW, this was also discussed in the following threads:

* https://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-users/2021/06/14/msg033902.html
* https://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-pkg/2020/11/03/msg024008.html

Lewis