Automatically deal with distrbutions with the same name, only different cases

[schwern]

Github is case-insensitive. CPAN distribution names are case-sensitive. This is a problem.

If distribution names only differ by case they are probably the same distribution. Usually the solution is to add an entry to the Gitpan config to merge these distributions. Example. ACME-Umlautify vs Acme-Umlautify.

Occasionally they will be different distributions. In this case, only one can be on Github. In this case, the distribution is skipped in the Gitpan config. So far, there has always been a clear winner. Example. Beancounter vs BeanCounter vs beancounter.

This requires human intervention to decide which one to do.

• Make it an error when a new distribution case-insensitively matches an existing distribution name.
• Scan the existing distributions for case-insensitive matches.

[book]

What about giving the "clear winner" the coveted repository name, and giving the others some -A or -1 or -bis version?

[schwern]

In every case the offending distribution was done by one author. I went with appending the author's cpanid to the distribution name like readonly-SUMMER, though I only adopted this for the second half.

[schwern]

One of the major concerns in renaming a repository is whether anyone will be able to find it.

[schwern]

Gitpan::Dist->import_releases now checks to see if a Github repository already exists with the same casing.