Allow npm names to be case sensitive #73
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I think this makes absolutely sense. If we don't allow this, we will have no way to distinguish between older npm packages. NPM is really a mess.. LGTM |
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@PFCM can you retrigger a CI run via: |
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Package names on npm have not always been forced to lower case, it is only enforced for new packages (see https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/v10/configuring-npm/package-json).
There are a number of cases where there are two distinct packages that differ only in casing, such as (borrowing from package-url/packageurl-java#38):
https://www.npmjs.com/package/Base64/v/1.0.0
https://www.npmjs.com/package/base64/v/1.0.0
Notably the Java implementation already does this (PR linked above), this discrepancy is certainly unfortunate.