Keith Vetter wrote:
Donald Porter wrote:
> > Based on comments seen in the chat, email, and other Tcl 
> > development circles, I've seen folks express interest in 
> > tackling a number of issues related to the way Tcl and its 
> > packages get installed from the base source distribution. 

>  I'd like to suggest one other feature for package resolution:
>  case insensitive naming. 

My initial sense is that's more a matter of how the [package] command
and various [package unknown] routines behave, and less directly relevant
to the already big picture of install conventions.  I'd at least tentatively
like to consider it "out of scope" in this discussion, unless further
development of the plan shows it to be an important step.

>  Case sensitivily is a nightmare which doesn't benefit anyone.

...and yet a whole world of package authors still will not adopt the
obvious solution of naming their packages with exclusively lowercase
characters.  Go figure.

-- 
| Don Porter          Mathematical and Computational Sciences Division |
| donald.porter@[...].gov             Information Technology Laboratory |
| http://math.nist.gov/~DPorter/                                  NIST |
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