Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 08:09:47 +0000 From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org> To: Pawe? P?kala <pawel@freebsd.org> Cc: cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, ports-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/x11-fonts Makefile ports/x11-fonts/anonymousPro Makefile distinfo pkg-descr pkg-plist ports/x11-fonts/anonymousPro/files pkg-message.in Message-ID: <20111130080947.GA95193@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20111130090313.00003930@unknown> References: <201111292232.pATMWINp021704@repoman.freebsd.org> <20111130015504.GB3953@FreeBSD.org> <20111130090313.00003930@unknown>
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On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 09:03:13AM +0100, Pawe? P?kala wrote: > Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org> napisa?(a): > > > Could we please please please stop adding ports with upper-case > > letters in their names? Both `anonymous-pro' and `anonymouspro' (as > > vendor's WWW page) suggest both are much nicer names. > > > > I would appreciate if you readd it and explain this to original > > submitter. > > It's not entirely submitter fault, I wasn't sure about this naming > either so I decided to do things by 'The Book' which says in chapter > 5.2.5 Package Naming Conventions: > > "The first letter of the name part should be lowercase. (The rest of > the name may contain capital letters, so use your own discretion when > you are converting a software name that has some capital letters in > it.)" This section is a bit misleading. I believe it tries to embrace cases like p5-* ports which are OK to be mixed cased for the reasons of retaining similarity to their CPAN names. For 99% of other ports this rule should not be applied. Especially if "mixed" name looks just plain dumb and ugly. We should not uphold upstream's stupidity. Thanks for readding in advance. ./danfe
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