Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 19:30:54 +1100 From: Kubilay Kocak <koobs@FreeBSD.org> To: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org> Cc: svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, Johannes Jost Meixner <xmj@FreeBSD.org>, ports-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r377721 - in head/devel/newfile: . files Message-ID: <54C3583E.1070205@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20150123122120.GA91455@FreeBSD.org> References: <201501231039.t0NAdYS5095664@svn.freebsd.org> <20150123110243.GA64051@FreeBSD.org> <54C234F6.4070805@FreeBSD.org> <20150123122120.GA91455@FreeBSD.org>
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On 23/01/2015 11:21 PM, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 10:48:06PM +1100, Kubilay Kocak wrote: >> On 23/01/2015 10:02 PM, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: >>> TBH, we should have never allowed to have dotted port names in the first >>> place. It already caused problems with e.g. ".core"-suffixed ports that >>> had to be renamed or something like that in the past. I think it's quite >>> clear that using dot in names is asking for trouble (and such names look >>> plain ugly), but people just can't refrain from using dot. :-( Maybe it >>> is some kind of mental disorder similar to incomprehensible predilection >>> some people exhibit to Comic Sans font. >> >> Blame me, I asked for it. POLA violation when I ran port create. It >> created py-gandi >> >> https://pypi.python.org/pypi/gandi.cli > > It would all be much easier if those dotted ports were s/\./-/g prior to > adding them. > > ./danfe > I'd like to enable easy discovery by users and better search relevance by matching upstream names as closely as possible. This is especially true for major language ports catalogues like python, and I imagine ruby and perl too. What characters are allowed or not by those upstream naming systems is a secondary and separate issue Other than the subjective prettiness factor, which I don't have a position on, what technical considerations or issues are there, if any, with dotted ports?
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