Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 01:46:42 +0400 From: Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3@amdmi3.ru> To: jhell <jhell@DataIX.net> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, Gabor PALI <pgj@freebsd.org>, freebsd-haskell@haskell.org Subject: Re: Renamed Haskell Applications Message-ID: <20100526214642.GA43302@hades.panopticon> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1005261609500.14705@pragry.qngnvk.ybpny> References: <4BFBDBC0.6040902@FreeBSD.org> <4BFC1D3D.7070904@dataix.net> <20100526154941.GC25216@hades.panopticon> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1005261609500.14705@pragry.qngnvk.ybpny>
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* jhell (jhell@DataIX.net) wrote:
> Normally I would object to something like this but in this case being that
> it is about Haskell applications, the change helps users locate all of the
> Haskell related ports quicker. Its almost as if the hs-* ports were in
> their own category like the ports-mgmt tools are.
They are.
make -C /usr/ports search cat=haskell
> For another part upgrading these will also be a slight bit smoother
> and locating what Haskell packages you have on your system will
> be easier just specifying hs-* to a upgrade tool or to
> pkg_de[lete|install].
There's no guarantee that all haskell-using ports will be prefixed with
hs- (and I hope they will not). For upgrading haskell ports, one should
use
portupgrade -R ghc-\*
I strictly object to adding hs- prefix to end-user applications like
darcs and xmonad, because it's a huge POLA violation. Users do not care
what the application is written in, they just search for
devel/{svn,mercurial,darcs} and x11-wm/{xmonad,icewm}, and should find
these ports in the expected places. We don't prefix mercurial with
py- and icewm with c-, similarily we shouldn't prefix darcs et al with
hs-. Modules that are used only for development and as dependencies is a
whole different thing, and definitely are what prefixes are for.
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