From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2004-03-15T21:04:22+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] RubyGems 0.2.0

On Monday, March 15, 2004, 9:52:34 PM, Chad wrote:

> On Mar 15, 2004, at 2:37 AM, why the lucky stiff wrote:

>> gabriele renzi wrote:
>>> cool thanks, but:
>>> rubygems-0.2.0>gem --remote-install=redcloth
>>> c:/programmi/ruby-1.8/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/rubygems/ 
>>> remote_installer.rb:78:in
>>>  `find_latest_valid_package_in_caches': Could not find redcloth >
>>
>> case-sensitive.
>>

> What do you all think--should this be case sensitive or not?  It's  
> obviously a pretty easy thing to change.

I'd say the following interface would be best:

  $ gem --remote-install=redcloth
  Package "redcloth" not found.  Closest match: "RedCloth".

  $ gem --remote-install=RedClith
  Package "RedClith" not found.  Closest match: "RedCloth".

I'd rather not lose case-sensitivity in installations.  Searching for
a package should be case-instensitive by default though.

There's a fuzzy matching algorithm for strings among the RubyForge
snippets.  (Convert both strings to lowercase before fuzzy matching.)

Cheers,
Gavin

P.S. Good work.  Nice to see it coming together.