[Rd] Rcmd install mypkg

[Gabor Grothendieck]

I think the really annoying thing is that it was changed for the worse.
Why not just keep it how it was before?

On 10/1/06, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca> wrote:
> On 10/1/2006 4:30 PM, hadley wickham wrote:
> >> Requiring Perl script names to be specified in a case-sensitive way
> >> doesn't affect the R build process, but it does mean that a script
> >> written on Windows is slightly more likely to work when someone runs it
> >> on another platform.  There's an "install" command in at least some
> >> flavours of Unix that would be invoked instead of R's INSTALL script if
> >> you said "R CMD install" on one of those platforms, and that's not a
> >> good thing.
> >
> > Will this be changing on OS X too?  My version of 2006-09-20 r39433
> > accepts either upper or lower case commands.
>
> I think OS X uses the same scripts as other Unix platforms.  So if
> they're happy working on a case-insensitive file system, it's unlikely
> we'll force a change, whether it would be a good idea or not.
>
> In fact, I'm fairly ambivalent about this one:  I'm a long-time believer
> in case-insensitivity.  I'd prefer if R were case-insensitive in all
> respects.  However, it's not, so consistency pulls me to case-sensitivity.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
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