From: Chad Fowler <chad@...>
Date: 2004-03-15T21:25:52+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] RubyGems 0.2.0


On Mar 15, 2004, at 7:04 AM, Gavin Sinclair wrote:

> 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".
>

That's an interesting idea.  Definitely a better error message than 
what 0.2.0 gives (which I've changed in CVS as of this morning).

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

As of now it's case insensitive in CVS.  The previous behavior was as 
you describe above.  It's obviously easy to change back.  I kind of 
like the idea of changing it back but providing a closest match as 
you've described.  Opinions?

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

Thanks.  I've just pasted it into a file to play with.

Chad