2011/11/30 Alexey Dokuchaev <da...@freebsd.org>: > On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 09:03:13AM +0100, Pawe? P?kala wrote: >> Alexey Dokuchaev <da...@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 How about py-* ports ? wen > 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 _______________________________________________ cvs-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "cvs-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
