I am not against this change, but please let's avoid an holy war on renaming...

it's the only package which is named badly without a reason. Before we go ahead and use it in many other packages, i would suggest to fix the name.

You know why I say that : it adds nothing and may leave bug behind. Try to install eigen+suitesparse now...

Another thing is : it's not named badly without a reason. It was created following exactly what the documentation prescribes. If other software packagers decides to use CamelCase in a tar.gz the command spack create <url> won't produce a good name if we start to adopt this rule.

I find it more annoying that something prescribed in the docs doesn't work rather than a name in CamelCase. Of course this may be just my personal taste.

i see you point. I grepped for SuiteSparse, so it should be good now with eigen and octave.

as always, this is just a proposition. I ain't gonna be pissed of if the PR is not merged 😄

Naturally, nothing personal intended, my comments were just to share my opinion on this. If I am minority and people want to merge I'll also get along with it 😄

I'm leaving this up to @alalazo. I'm kind of agnostic and git blame shows he's the guy who added the package. I like lowercase + dashes and wouldn't be unhappy if spack create started naming things that way. I'm also not opposed to people renaming things away from what spack create picks if they think they've got a better name -- spack create is automatic and was intended mainly to get packagers up and running, not to create a precedent. You may be interested (or irritated?) to know that you can name packages starting with numbers... MacPorts had 3proxy (http://3proxy.ru) so I figured why not? Blame the Russians...

So up to you @alalazo.

I am not against this change in particular, so it's fine with me to merge. My point more generally is that usually renaming spates bring more troubles than benefits : you know today it's suite sparse, tomorrow all the python modules... 😄