From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2010-10-05T06:18:08+09:00
Subject: Re: gems should *not be case sensitive.. or should they?


On Oct 4, 2010, at 06:13 , Ammar Ali wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 7:49 AM, botp <botpena@gmail.com> wrote:
>> why are gem names case sensitive?
>> 
>> ie, gem rubyinline != gem RubyInline  ??
>> 
>> if it's an os/arch limitation, then i'd suggest they'd be all downcased :)
> 
> Interesting. I does make sense to me that search/list finds either
> case and that install requires an exact match. I like the simplicity
> of the idea, but if it's possible to publish 2 gems with same name
> using different casings, this won't work. I think.

Yeah... and I've screwed that up in the past when I released "zentest" (pre hoe, so that won't happen again). I had to get the gem removed and forcibly removed from the gem index.