[Nix-dev] Re: [Nix-commits] SVN commit: nix - r27904 - in nixpkgs/trunk/pkgs: misc/emulators/VisualBoyAdvance top-level

[Alexander Tsamutali]

Vladimír Čunát <vcunat at gmail.com> writes:

> Hi.
>
> On 24 July 2011 18:11, Sander van der Burg - EWI
> <S.vanderBurg at tudelft.nl> wrote:
>> Convenience, hmm... Personally, I find it confusing if the name of this emulator would be: visual_boy_advance or something like that, while the package on the internet is named: VisualBoyAdvance . Similarly, a lot of Java packages use naming conventions like this.
>
> I agree on this point - I respect the convention but I find it
> unnecessary. I think most distributions tend to stick to upstream
> naming conventions. There might be some minor portability problems
> with CamelCase filenames (I'm not sure), as some OSs are case
> insensitive. But on the whole I certainly wouldn't mind to drop this
> restriction, or are there any other reasons for it?
>
> Vlada

Most distributions follow 'lower case separeted by dashes'
convention. Such names are easier to type and you dont have to remember
to always use 'grep -i' for ex.


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Alexander Tsamutali