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Re: AC_INIT translates PACKAGE to lower case
From: |
Ralf Corsepius |
Subject: |
Re: AC_INIT translates PACKAGE to lower case |
Date: |
01 Feb 2002 14:03:44 +0100 |
Am Fre, 2002-02-01 um 12.33 schrieb Akim Demaille:
> >>>>> "Ralf" == Ralf Corsepius <address@hidden> writes:
>
> Ralf> Am Don, 2002-01-31 um 22.31 schrieb Alexandre Duret-Lutz:
> >> >>> "Ralf" == Ralf Corsepius <address@hidden> writes:
> >>
> Ralf> Am Don, 2002-01-31 um 17.27 schrieb Russ Allbery:
> >> [...]
> >>
> >> >> Why are you lowercasing the package name?
> >>
> >> For the same reason a leading `GNU ' is stripped: because for most
> >> packages this is the way to transform a package name into a tarball
> >> name.
> >>
> >> `GNU Autoconf' => `autoconf'
> Ralf> Hmm, do I really need to like this?
>
> Ralf> IMHO, this is equally bad and error-prone as lowercasing. Why
> Ralf> not letting program authors/maintain decide upon this?
>
> What the heck is your point?
Would you please read what I wrote under 1) in my previous mail.
To summarize, I am saying that
* autoconf's is going beyond it's actual tasks and because of this
interferes/conflicts with automake and gettext wrt. PACKAGE and
PACKAGE_TARNAME.
* lowercasing and stripping of GNU from package name should remain
user's tasks.
* AC_INIT internals and features are at least highly questionable and
should be redesigned.
You are right, the currently implementation does provide the features I
would want, but am not satisfied with the general behavior, which IMO
does more harm than it uses, rsp. is useless in probably 95% of all
cases (packages using lowercased single-word package names).
BTW, I would appreciate the other autoconf and automake maintainers to
speak up, because apparently a reasonable discussion between Akim and me
doesn't seem to be possible anymore.
Ralf
- Re: AC_INIT translates PACKAGE to lower case, Ralf Corsepius, 2002/02/01
- Re: AC_INIT translates PACKAGE to lower case, Akim Demaille, 2002/02/01
- Re: AC_INIT translates PACKAGE to lower case,
Ralf Corsepius <=
- Re: AC_INIT translates PACKAGE to lower case, Earnie Boyd, 2002/02/01
- Re: AC_INIT translates PACKAGE to lower case, Ralf Corsepius, 2002/02/01
- Apologies (Was Re: AC_INIT translates PACKAGE to lower case), Ralf Corsepius, 2002/02/01
- Re: Apologies (Was Re: AC_INIT translates PACKAGE to lower case), Akim Demaille, 2002/02/04
- Message not available
- Re: Apologies (Was Re: AC_INIT translates PACKAGE to lower case), Akim Demaille, 2002/02/05
- Re: Apologies (Was Re: AC_INIT translates PACKAGE to lower case), Akim Demaille, 2002/02/05
- Re: Apologies (Was Re: AC_INIT translates PACKAGE to lower case), Ralf Corsepius, 2002/02/05
- Re: Apologies (Was Re: AC_INIT translates PACKAGE to lower case), Akim Demaille, 2002/02/05
- Re: AC_INIT translates PACKAGE to lower case, Bruce Korb, 2002/02/01
- Re: AC_INIT translates PACKAGE to lower case, Earnie Boyd, 2002/02/01