Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 15:39:07 -0500 (EST) From: Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net> To: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com> Cc: <ports@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/games Makefile ports/games/HeroesOfMightAndMagicMakefile pkg-comment pkg-descrports/games/HeroesOfMightAndMagic/files pkg-plist.base pkg-plist.musicpkg-plist.scenario pkg-plis Message-ID: <20010307152526.P4383-100000@blues.jpj.net> In-Reply-To: <20010307121615O.jkh@osd.bsdi.com>
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> > Our policy discourages using ports directories starting with capital letter.
> > Please delete and readd with corrected name.
>
> It does? First I'd heard of it.
It's mentioned in the "Package Names" section of
doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.sgml. Look for the
part that reads
<para>The first letter of <filename>name</filename> part
should be lowercase. (The rest of the name can contain
capital letters, so use your own discretion when you are
converting a software name that has some capital letters in
it.)
and the example that says "No uppercase names for single programs".
> Looking through INDEX also reveals that we have over 80 ports which do
> exactly that. Some, like Xaw3d, have also been there for a very long
> time.
I have a vague recollection that the rule was added about a year ago as
part of Satoshi Asami's plan to add new categories. I think he might have
wanted to name the categories with initial capitals. The plan hasn't been
carried out, so the ports that break the rule aren't yet causing harm.
--
Trevor Johnson
http://jpj.net/~trevor/gpgkey.txt
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