Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 18:25:08 -0400 From: Tim Vanderhoek <vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca> To: Doug <Doug@gorean.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org, nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk Subject: Re: ports/12463: Update: Fvwm2 to 2.2.2 Message-ID: <19990701182508.A31961@mad> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907011229590.13256-100000@dt054n86.san.rr.com>; from Doug on Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 12:44:30PM -0700 References: <19990701152359.C48778@mad> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907011229590.13256-100000@dt054n86.san.rr.com>
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On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 12:44:30PM -0700, Doug wrote: > > I've done several ports myself, so I feel qualified to judge it in > context. In particular, the COMMENT is most important (IMO) in the If anything, that would disqualify you, but if we used that criteria, we'd disqualify far too many people. :) > sysinstall case, where they are viewed one at a time. I submit that you > are looking at them en masse, which a typical user would never do. Disagree, strongly. Even in sysinstall, they are viewed en masse. Then there's also the README.html files, again, en masse. > don't believe that legislating the use of articles at the beginning of the > sentence adds utility in comparison to the pita factor of trying to > enforce it. The PITA factor of enforcing the lack thereof is pretty low. :) > > [585]unclutter-8 > > Remove idle cursor image from screen > > [1396]wget-1.5.3 > > Retrieve files from the 'net via HTTP and FTP > > Should be, "Retrieves . . ." [etc] Well, either way. They should be consistent. I'm happy with "Retrieves", etc., although that means one less character is available. > My main point is that having the A/An there DOES improve the > readability, at a very low cost. I don't see a compelling reason to change > them one way (all A's) or the other (no A's). We have more than enough I was interested in opinions on this. I can't say how thoroughly I disagree. I hope someday you will change your mind. I will wait patiently until then. I hope others jump in and give me an excuse to remove the "A "s, though. I still have trouble believing that there is much of a chance you are right. > reason not to allow a little creativity/variety in an area that has no > signficant impact one way or the other. Uh, I wouldn't exactly call this a creativity issue.... > > I'm also considering that maybe I should've made an exception and not > > capitalized "perl5" when it appears at the start of a comment. > > My understanding from the Perl FAQ is that the proper punctuation > should be, "Perl 5". Same, but the de facto standard was "perl5 module" until I changed a bunch of them to "Perl5 module", which I wouldn't have done if I'd reviewed the diffs more closely. Incidentally, in this case I value de facto standard pretty highly. -- This is my .signature which gets appended to the end of my messages. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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