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Date:      Thu, 18 Apr 2002 12:38:49 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/Tools/scripts patchtool.py
Message-ID:  <20020418123849.A97964@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020418193605.GC25519@madman.nectar.cc>; from nectar@FreeBSD.org on Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 02:36:05PM -0500
References:  <200204181746.g3IHkgu69548@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020418175216.GA24952@madman.nectar.cc> <20020418105426.A91050@dragon.nuxi.com> <20020418175903.GA25057@madman.nectar.cc> <20020418121111.A97619@dragon.nuxi.com> <20020418193605.GC25519@madman.nectar.cc>

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On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 02:36:05PM -0500, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 12:11:11PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> > No that is not the only reason -- did you even read the emails following
> > up to this commit?  The other was that / -> ::, which causes even longer
> > names that the orginial path.   
> 
> Why is this such a big deal?

It offends many of our sense of aesthetics.  And the :: change was a
deveration from the '-' and '_' that was orginially used.

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