On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 11:34 AM Alex Kavanagh <alex.kavan...@canonical.com> wrote:
> Why not allow the display of the name to be case sensitive, but all usage > to be case insensitive? So name is MySQL, but you can juju deploy mYSqL if > you really wanted to. > I expect display names may also include unicode characters in the future, for example Ăbersoftware Which would need name to still be defined from a store/unique id perspective. As for case insensitive juju deploy command, I'd consider that out of scope of this proposal. On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 2:50 PM, Marco Ceppi <marco.ce...@canonical.com> > wrote: > >> Hey everyone, >> >> I know we're rocking towards 2.0 but this is a problem I've seen voiced a >> few times now. To date, the `name` field in charm has always been >> [a-z-0-9_-] where you can't end with `-#`. This makes sense, simple flat >> names that are all lowercase make it easy to do `juju deploy wordpress` >> instead of following branding guidelines of `juju deploy WordPress`. >> >> However, a lot of applications have very specific branding guidelines for >> how their display name should be represented. Just a few for example: >> >> - WordPress >> - NS1 >> - MySQL >> - PostgreSQL >> >> Today, in the charmstore each is rendered as: >> >> - Wordpress >> - Ns1 >> - Mysql >> - Postgresql >> >> Very rarely do the display names in the charm store and the intended >> branding of application align. I'd like to propose an optional field in the >> charm metadata, `display-name` which would allow slightly more control over >> charmstore display: >> >> ``` >> name: ns1 >> display-name: NS1 >> ``` >> >> ``` >> name: mysql >> display-name: MySQL >> ``` >> >> etc. This would lead to the store and other places across the Juju Charms >> properties which referenced the Application, instead of the deployment >> instructions, to use the display-name field (see attached). >> >> Curious opinions on this, repercussions of adding metadata fields, esp >> for older versions of Juju, and if this is worth pursing. >> >> -- >> Juju mailing list >> Juju@lists.ubuntu.com >> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/juju >> >> > > > -- > Alex Kavanagh - Software Engineer > Cloud Dev Ops - Solutions & Product Engineering - Canonical Ltd >
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