> On 30/04/2015, at 21:43, Jeroen Demeyer <jdeme...@cage.ugent.be> wrote: > > On 2015-04-30 08:57, Emmanuel Charpentier wrote: >> The Developer's guide >> <http://www.sagemath.org/doc/developer/packaging.html#directory-structure> >> states the ported packages' tarballs have to be in *lower case* : >> "The build scripts and associated files are in a subdirectory >> SAGE_ROOT/build/pkgs/package, where you replace package with a >> lower-case version of the upstream project name." > That's about the directory in build/pkgs, not the tarball name. > >> 1. What other parts of the build system are broken by mixedCased tarballs ? > No part of the build system is broken by mixedCased tarball. > >> 2. Is this restriction really necessary ? > There is no such restriction, see answer 1.
I remember you saying that in the R-3.2.0 ticket. That being said, the tarballs for Pillow and Sphinx have a capital but their hosting folder in build/pkgs doesn’t. It feels like a case where we should do a bit of tidy up. Francois -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
