[TYPO3-dev] Uppercase directory names

[Michael]

On 28/05/13 16:44, Christian Weiske wrote:

> I've been wondering quite some time now why TYPO3 choose to use
> uppercase directory names, as in
[...]
>> $extname/Resources/Private
[...]
> Why is that so?

I don't have a technical answer, but from an organisational point of 
view: Because these are the Coding Guidelines :-)

http://docs.typo3.org/typo3cms/CodingGuidelinesReference/

In particular section "File System Conventions"

http://docs.typo3.org/typo3cms/CodingGuidelinesReference/FileSystemConventions/Index.html

...and the sub sections such as:

- TYPO3 directory structure
- TYPO3 files and user files
- Extension directory structure
- File names

File and directory names have to describe the functionality included in 
the file/directory. They consist of one or more nouns, written in 
UpperCamelCase.


Cheers
Michael