Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2017 12:25:14 +0000 From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org> To: Tijl Coosemans <tijl@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Mathieu Arnold <mat@FreeBSD.org>, ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, mexas@bris.ac.uk Subject: Re: svn commit: r436025 - in head/lang: . OpenCoarrays OpenCoarrays/files Message-ID: <20170314122514.GA39417@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20170314131123.7e074dd8@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> References: <201703122025.v2CKPT3j040756@repo.freebsd.org> <20170312210236.GA75488@FreeBSD.org> <20170312225202.76a6f57b@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> <00a0ce93-cfc3-c93d-d0df-09a800258698@FreeBSD.org> <20170314131123.7e074dd8@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org>
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On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 01:11:30PM +0100, Tijl Coosemans wrote: > On Tue, 14 Mar 2017 12:54:57 +0100 Mathieu Arnold <mat@FreeBSD.org> > wrote: > > This was uncalled for. > > > > The *only* reason we use to lowercase the name of a port when upstream > > is not lowercased is if it provides a lowercased binary to run. No, we always prefer lowercase, with a few known exceptions. Every sane packaging ecosystem does the same (GNU/Linux distributions, Homebrew, you name it). > > Say, for example, sysutils/lsof was called upstream LsOf, then we would > > still call our port lsof, because it provides a binary called lsof. > > This is not the case here, it only provides caf and cafrun. > > So people searching for OpenCoarrays will not find it straight away. They will, because search is universally case-insensitive (that includes Google and FreshPorts.org) by default. > I'm on the fence about this, so I went with the name used by the > maintainer. I like using lowercase everywhere because you don't have > to worry about case then, but I'm fine either way. Note that the port > can still be found with the original name: > > % make -C /usr/ports search name=OpenCoarrays > Port: opencoarrays-1.8.4 > Path: /usr/ports/lang/opencoarrays > Info: Transport layer for coarray Fortran compilers Exactly. ./danfe
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