Why are gems with the same spelling but different capitalization allowed on rubygems.org
https://rubygems.org/gems/ActionTimer
https://rubygems.org/gems/actiontimer
dafuq? case-sensitivity here but not there causes problems with filesystem/downloads/uniqueness/research…
Replying to @veganstraightedge@ruby.social
@veganstraightedge I think there’s some legacy ones there, you can’t register new ones that clash with different cases, similar thing in the first 1k npm packages
Replying to @andrewnez@mastodon.social
GistReport of gems whose names differ only in case on rubygems.orgReport of gems whose names differ only in case on rubygems.org - 1_case_collisions.mdReplying to @veganstraightedge@ruby.social
@veganstraightedge fun research though, I’ve been meaning to do more classification of packages using https://github.com/ecosyste-ms/oss-taxonomy to aid discovery
GitHubGitHub - ecosyste-ms/oss-taxonomy: A structured, open-source taxonomy for classifying open source software projects.A structured, open-source taxonomy for classifying open source software projects. - ecosyste-ms/oss-taxonomy