Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 18:46:12 -0400 From: "b. f." <bf1783@googlemail.com> To: pav@freebsd.org Cc: Gabor PALI <pgj@freebsd.org>, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, cvs-all@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org, Ashish SHUKLA <ashish@freebsd.org>, cvs-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/devel/hs-BNFC Makefile distinfo pkg-descr pkg-plist ports/devel/hs-filemanip Makefile distinfo pkg-descr pkg-plist ports/textproc/hs-lhs2tex Makefile distinfo pkg-descr pkg-plist Message-ID: <BANLkTinmHFOfqutyC40UbsZR2R80vdZOFw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1304450016.3028.6.camel@hood.oook.cz> References: <201105020531.p425VDbe056515@repoman.freebsd.org> <4DBE60CE.5090305@FreeBSD.org> <4DBE63F6.2050602@FreeBSD.org> <4DBF08A2.1070208@FreeBSD.org> <1304450016.3028.6.camel@hood.oook.cz>
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On 5/3/11, Pav Lucistnik <pav@freebsd.org> wrote: > Doug Barton p=ED=B9e v po 02. 05. 2011 v 12:40 -0700: >> On 05/02/2011 00:57, Gabor PALI wrote: >> > On 05/02/11 09:44, Doug Barton wrote: >> >> On 05/01/2011 22:31, Ashish SHUKLA wrote: >> >>> devel/bnfc -> devel/hs-BNFC >> >> >> >> I thought we didn't do new upper-case port names on purpose? >> >> >> > >> > It stems from HackageDB [1]. The port will be converted to a >> > bsd.cabal.mk [2] consumer soon. >> > >> > >> > [1] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/BNFC >> > [2] http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/lang/ghc/bsd.cabal.mk >> >> I'm sorry, I don't understand this response. I realize that there are >> some software packages that have upper-case letters in their names. >> However, my understanding is that we are not using upper-case letters >> for new portnames. Is my understanding incorrect? > > My understanding is that the first letter must be lowercase, next > letters are allowed to be uppercase if there's a good reason ie. > upstream naming. > We have some existing conventions that don't conform to this rule, and will affect the addition of new ports. The CRAN ports use R-cran-*, and more of these ports will be added. Do you want us to move these to r-cran-* ? b.
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