Lowercase naming requirement for systems?

[Robert Goldman]

I plan to import this into the manual.


... in my copious free time.

Best,
R

On 17 Feb 2019, at 15:01, Florian Margaine wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Sun, Feb 17, 2019 at 9:54 PM Robert Dodier <robert.dodier at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Feb 17, 2019 at 6:25 AM Robert P. Goldman <rpgoldman at sift.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Quick response for now: yes, lowercase naming is a requirement.
>>
>> Hi Robert, thanks for your reply. Got it, no problem. I will adjust my
>> stuff accordingly.
>>
>> It would really help a lot if the policy for the name of the system
>> and the corresponding .asd filename were spelled out in the ASDF
>> manual. As it stands, the manual doesn't say anything about
>> requirements for system-designator; there are incidental comments
>> suggesting using lowercase but not a specification or requirement. If
>> names are indeed restricted to lowercase letters, digits, and hyphens,
>> it would be great to say so.
>>
>
> At least this exists, although I'm not sure how easy to find it is:
> https://gitlab.common-lisp.net/asdf/asdf/blob/master/doc/best_practices.md
>
> Cheers,
> -- 
> Florian Margaine




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