Another reason is that we allow the programmer to refer to systems with symbols as well as strings, and symbols are not -- without a substantial nuisance -- case-sensitive.
I'm afraid you are better off with "solve-solvable2". And avoid "solve_solvable" because underscores are not legal characters in logical pathnames.
Best, R
On 17 Feb 2019, at 8:24, Robert P. Goldman wrote:
Quick response for now: yes, lowercase naming is a requirement. There are a number of reasons for this, including the fact that CL's logical pathnames are case-insensitive.
Best, R
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On Feb 17, 2019, at 01:21, Robert Dodier robert.dodier@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
The ASDF manual says that the name of a system is a lowercase string. Is that actually a requirement?
I was trying to create an .asd system which has a name with mixed upper- and lowercase characters and the system is stored in a file of the same name on a case-sensitive file system (Linux). But I get "Component Foo not found" for that. If I change the name of the system and the name of the file to lowercase, the system is found.
For the record, I've pasted the would-be mixed-case named system below. It contains stuff that will make it generally unloadable since you don't have my maxima-file hackery. If it turns out we need to go into this in more detail, I will devise a more minimal example. But first maybe someone can say what the name requirement is.
best,
Robert Dodier
PS. (defsystem "SolveSolvable2" :defsystem-depends-on ("maxima-file") :author "Yasuaki Honda" :license "GNU Lesser General Public License, version 2" :description "Program SolveSolvable2 of GaloisGroupSolver, a Maxima package for solving polynomials based on their Galois Groups"
:components ((:maxima-file "Gal") (:maxima-file "FiniteGroup") (:maxima-file "ExtendedField") (:maxima-file "Stage3") (:maxima-file "Verify") (:maxima-file "SolveSolvable2")))
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