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Johnathon Wright

17 May, 2010 03:33 PM

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I somewhat-accidentally changed from the name valuable to Valuable only to find that my gem appears twice on gemcutter.

• Can I merge these names so that the 100+ people who are using Valuable won't have to be confused when their gem disappears?

• Is it really a good idea to have case-sensitive gem names? This seems like a recipe for (a) mass confusion and (b) inviting kiddie-script hackers to be mischievous. ( >> oh, c'mon... no one would do that... >> no, seriously, I specifically know someone who would do it immediately if he knew about it.)

I'd be happy to write the patch if I thought the community would support this idea.

jw

1. Support Staff 2 Posted by John Barnette on 17 May, 2010 03:38 PM

   

   Though I can't remember them off the top of my head, I know there are a couple of other gems that only differ in name case. Nick, we should probably run ourselves a report on this. :)

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2. Support Staff 3 Posted by Nick Quaranto on 17 Jul, 2010 08:31 PM

   

   Looks like I lost track of this one.

   There's no way to merge things...and case sensitive names is pretty annoying. I think if you're serious about this you should start a discussion on rubygems-developers about it, and we can discuss the implications of it there instead of this support forum.

   Going to consider this resolved for now.

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3. Nick Quaranto closed this discussion on 17 Jul, 2010 08:31 PM.

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