Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 10:00:58 +0100 From: Pav Lucistnik <pav@FreeBSD.org> To: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org, ports-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Pawe? P?kala <pawel@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: <4ED5F0CA.9010504@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20111130080947.GA95193@FreeBSD.org> References: <201111292232.pATMWINp021704@repoman.freebsd.org> <20111130015504.GB3953@FreeBSD.org> <20111130090313.00003930@unknown> <20111130080947.GA95193@FreeBSD.org>
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On 2011/11/30 09:09, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> 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.
No, thats just your incorrect interpretation. There is nothing
prohibiting capital letters in port names except the first character.
Please don't pass your personal opinions as project policies, thank you.
> Especially if "mixed" name looks just plain dumb and ugly. We should not
> uphold upstream's stupidity.
No no. We should mirror the upstream as closely as possible.
--
Pav Lucistnik <pav@oook.cz>
<pav@FreeBSD.org>
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