Lowercase naming requirement for systems?

Florian Margaine florian at margaine.com
Sun Feb 17 21:01:23 UTC 2019


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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