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Date:      Wed, 30 Jul 2014 07:04:13 +0000
From:      Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Adam Weinberger <adamw@adamw.org>
Cc:        svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, William Grzybowski <wg@freebsd.org>, ports-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r363361 - in head/editors/fte: . files
Message-ID:  <20140730070412.GA97692@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <41D25BC1-AC62-4280-A342-8A2BDD84B1E0@adamw.org>
References:  <201407291646.s6TGkjHH090335@svn.freebsd.org> <41D25BC1-AC62-4280-A342-8A2BDD84B1E0@adamw.org>

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On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 01:10:45PM -0400, Adam Weinberger wrote:
> I'm about to rename all patches that contain ::. Can we please stop
> producing patches with :: as a path separator, and use __ instead?

Can we also stop using double underscore as it makes patch names so ugly
and unreadable that I have to spend twice as much time working on ports
that uses this stupid convention?

There are plenty of nice, single characters to chose from: -, _, and +
should suffice most needs (yes, this also covers avoiding confusion that
original "double underscore" convention was trying to solve).

./danfe



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