Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 13:13:26 -0600 (CST) From: Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us> To: Bill Fumerola <billf@mu.org> Cc: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, <cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG>, <cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/games Makefile Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.32.0103081302200.34818-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us> In-Reply-To: <20010308030217.P31752@elvis.mu.org>
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On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Bill Fumerola wrote: > On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 10:31:25AM +0200, Mark Murray wrote: > > > > No, it's not rediculous, it's the rule. It has been the rule for > > > some time now and quite frankly I'd like to keep the rule. > > > > Why do you want to keep the rule? > > 0: > Because it keeps everything uniform and it generally sorts nicely. > > 1: > I'd rather not have to remember out if a port is net/cidr or net/CIDR > or net/Cidr. > > 2: > The existing correct cases are generally where the capitalization of > the program is so well known (IglooFTP, XFree86, LPRng, etc) that it > makes sense to capitalize it in a way a user would expect it. 3: Case-sensitive searches are more fruitful when you only have to worry about one case. It would be nice if even the old mixed-case port names were made lowercase, eventually (before the end of time, hopefully). I stumble through trying xfree86 -> Xfree86 -> XFree86 every single time I come across it. If this were DOS/Windows/MacOS/etc and we had an operating system whose philosophy was to be for the most part case-insensitive, this wouldn't be an issue, but it isn't, and I'm rather glad it isn't. :-) -- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet. For IA32 and Alpha architectures. IA64, PPC, and ARM under development. http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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