Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 07:26:34 -0400 From: "b. f." <bf1783@googlemail.com> To: Pav Lucistnik <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: <BANLkTikgZYuu%2BVQoxVDnMwAHH3mxMAkKDg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4DC11C2D.2010006@FreeBSD.org> 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> <BANLkTinmHFOfqutyC40UbsZR2R80vdZOFw@mail.gmail.com> <4DC11C2D.2010006@FreeBSD.org>
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On 5/4/11, Pav Lucistnik <pav@freebsd.org> wrote: > On 2011/05/04 00:46, b. f. wrote: >> 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-* ? > > It's a guideline not a law. > > No I don't think these need to be changed retroactively. Actually R is > such a well recognized software name while r means nothing, so I'd not > want to see math/R renamed either. > Alright, we'll continue to use the existing convention. I wasn't really looking forward to having to move them, but I thought I should at least ask, if enough people thought that capital letters were inconvenient to create the guideline in the first place, and Debian seems to get by with gnu-r and r-cran-*. b.
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