MPC (Music Player Controller, MPD)

[maro]

Can we please avoid a situation where two extension names exists that only differ in their mix of upper and lower case (e.g. 'MPC.tcz' and 'mpc.tcz').

I for one have my private extension mirror on a NTFS partition, which is obviously not case-sensitive and this would open the door for all sorts of "fun & games". Yeah that's a lame excuse, but I'm pretty sure such a "clash of names" would fool a whole range of users.

[Rich]

I'm inclined to agree. I can already see some users using wget and the wrong case for extensions
that differ only in case and not getting what they expected.

[hiro]

The music player client extension was there first, so it should get preference.

[PET-240]

Just wondering where this is at currently?
New to figuring out the loading etc of mpd and what not, would dearly love to use TC and mpd for a music player.
Can anyone advise the process or is interested in development kudos?

Thanks,

Drew

[bmarkus]

mpc is in the repository as well as cmus

[jls]

in the 5.x repo mpc is complex floating-point library, not music player controller

[bmarkus]

Nobody referred to the version

[bmarkus]

It is a very bad idea to have two extension the same name differing only in case. Also it is not about which was first added to the repo; on this basis you can't rename a well know application just because one added it later. mpc is one of the crucial applications and part of the toolchain, math and scientific libs. You can not rename it.

First it is not clear which music player you are talking about. If you provide the reference to the home site, we can discuss it. For example MOC is well known console player, see http://moc.daper.net/

Unfortunatels their last and first beta is one year old, and both this and previous version is buggy and no progerss seen.

[Peterek]

mpd = http://www.musicpd.org/                         Music Player Daemon
mpc = http://www.musicpd.org/clients/mpc/       Music Player Client

but in repo
mpc = complex floating-point library

So two different software but the same name.

[Juanito]

Not exactly:

mpc = complex floating-point library

MPC = Music Player Client

Since linux filesystems will differentiate between the two, the name is not the same.

[hiro]

Can we please avoid a situation where two extension names exists that only differ in their mix of upper and lower case (e.g. 'MPC.tcz' and 'mpc.tcz').

I for one have my private extension mirror on a NTFS partition, which is obviously not case-sensitive and this would open the door for all sorts of "fun & games". Yeah that's a lame excuse, but I'm pretty sure such a "clash of names" would fool a whole range of users.

And to add up on that point:
Could we please, in case of doubt, just leave everything like it is instead of changing the naming of two extensions to each other and back?

[jls]

Hi
but if u use a non linux file system mpd = MPD