Date: Sun, 26 May 2019 11:08:25 -0700 From: Yuri <yuri@freebsd.org> To: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> Cc: ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r502676 - in head/science: . opensph opensph/files Message-ID: <ca65087e-b8e0-aa02-5c0f-a834d665fd65@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20190526085728.GA35964@FreeBSD.org> References: <201905260408.x4Q489Sj016376@repo.freebsd.org> <20190526085728.GA35964@FreeBSD.org>
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On 2019-05-26 01:57, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > As several people, including myself, had repeatedly asked you in the > past: please stop doing this. Most of users expect PORTNAME=opensph > and there are no good reasons to confuse them. Dear Alexey, Visual text recognition, ease of read, and users' familiarity with terms in specific spellings are the main reasons here. This particular project is called "OpenSPH" in the title of its homepage (https://gitlab.com/sevecekp/sph) and a few search hits that mention it also call it with the same spelling. "SPH" is also an abbreviation in this case. Mixed-case words have more distinctive and diverse shape, and the research into human reading behavior suggests that "configurational and shape information about words appears to be retained in memory" and used for text recognition.[1] It is also self-evident that when casing corresponds to natural word or term boundaries it makes it easier to recognize the words. On the other hand, you site tradition and consensus. But I only saw the evidence of consensus for lowercase spelling of directory names. When you previously complained about PORTNAMEs, some other people also said that it was nothing wrong with these PORTNAME strings. pkg(8) also seems to be case-blind in its 'search' and 'install' sub-commands. There are currently several hundred of PORTNAMEs that have capital letters in them. I can assure you that I only use mixed casing after a very serious consideration, only in cases which have very compelling reasons for this. Regards, Yuri --References-- [1] Linnea C. Ehri, Lee S. Wilce RECOGNITION OF SPELLINGS PRINTED IN LOWER AND MIXEDCASE: EVIDENCE FOR ORTHOGRAPHIC IMAGES, Journal of Reading Behavior¡982, Volume XIV, No. 3 (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/10862968209547451)
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