[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #57735] pkg: package names should be handled case insensitively

[Rik]

Update of bug #57735 (project octave):

                  Status:          Ready For Test => Need Info              

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Follow-up Comment #7:

Do we have a sense about whether package names *should* be lower case?  I took
another look at this and just treating things case insensitively, such as
swapping all strcmp for strcmpi, is not likely to be enough.  If someone wants
the "nan" package from Octave-Forge, but types "NaN", strcmpi will compare
true but there is no NaN package to download.  Sure, this can be worked around
by getting the list, doing the comparison case insensitively, and then always
choosing the name from the download list.  But that is just one example.

It would be simpler if we had a convention, such as all package names are
lower case, but it might be too late too implement that if there are a lot in
the wild with mixed case already.

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