Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 15:02:21 +0100 From: Lars Engels <lars.engels@0x20.net> To: Kubilay Kocak <koobs@FreeBSD.org> Cc: svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>, Johannes Jost Meixner <xmj@FreeBSD.org>, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r377721 - in head/devel/newfile: . files Message-ID: <20150124140220.GF67556@e-new.0x20.net> In-Reply-To: <54C3583E.1070205@FreeBSD.org> References: <201501231039.t0NAdYS5095664@svn.freebsd.org> <20150123110243.GA64051@FreeBSD.org> <54C234F6.4070805@FreeBSD.org> <20150123122120.GA91455@FreeBSD.org> <54C3583E.1070205@FreeBSD.org>
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On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 07:30:54PM +1100, Kubilay Kocak wrote: > 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 fi= rst > >>> place. It already caused problems with e.g. ".core"-suffixed ports t= hat > >>> had to be renamed or something like that in the past. I think it's q= uite > >>> clear that using dot in names is asking for trouble (and such names l= ook > >>> plain ugly), but people just can't refrain from using dot. :-( Maybe= it > >>> is some kind of mental disorder similar to incomprehensible predilect= ion > >>> 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 > >=20 > > It would all be much easier if those dotted ports were s/\./-/g prior to > > adding them. > >=20 > > ./danfe > >=20 >=20 > I'd like to enable easy discovery by users and better search relevance > by matching upstream names as closely as possible. >=20 > 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 >=20 > 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? There might be scripts which expect the first dot in the version part of a package's name and not in the name itself.
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