Case of port names?

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Thu Feb 26 01:33:17 PST 2009


Joshua Root wrote:
> Scott Haneda wrote:
>> Are all port names to be lowercase?
> 
> No.
> 
>> I changed my port name in the
>> portfile from assp to ASSP, since that is how the project is named, and
>> it can no longer download the zip source files.
>>
>> Recommended method would be to use correct case when installing the file
>> directory, but the port name stays lowercase across the board?
> 
> $distname defaults to $name, change it if you need to.

Correction: it defaults to ${name}-${version}

- Josh


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