On Fri, 2002-03-29 at 14:18, Joey Hess wrote: > But, we don't upper-case a package "title" either so this analogy > doesn't hold up well for capitalization.
I would argue that this is because our package names have a dual role; they are processed by both machine and by humans. They're a lot like program filenames; Unix culture says they should be lowercase, should use a separator[1] character instead of a space, etc. But just because our "titles" are constrained doesn't mean our subtitles should be. [1] Interestingly enough, '-' was chosen for Debian package names instead of '_'; I would guess this is becuase a number of Debian's original founders and policy writers had some influence from Lisp. Or maybe they just realized it's easier to type :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
