Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 10:10:58 +0200 (EET) From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> To: jhb@FreeBSD.org (John Baldwin) Cc: sobomax@FreeBSD.org (Maxim Sobolev), cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, demon@FreeBSD.org, jkh@osd.bsdi.com ((Jordan Hubbard)) Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/games Makefile Message-ID: <200103080811.f288B3U61097@vic.sabbo.net> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010307233242.jhb@FreeBSD.org> from "John Baldwin" at Mar 07, 2001 11:32:42 PM
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> On 07-Mar-01 Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> >>
> >> From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>
> >> Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/games Makefile
> >> ports/games/HeroesOfMightAndMagicMakefile pkg-comment
> >> pkg-descrports/games/HeroesOfMightAndMagic/files pkg-plist.base
> >> pkg-plist.musicpkg-plist.scenario pkg-plist.tail pkg-plist.video ...
> >> Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 13:48:23 +0200
> >>
> >> > Our policy discourages using ports directories starting with capital
> >> > letter.
> >> > Please delete and readd with corrected name.
> >>
> >> It does? First I'd heard of it. Looking through INDEX also reveals
> >> that we have over 80 ports which do exactly that. Some, like Xaw3d,
> >> have also been there for a very long time.
> >
> > Yeah, it is. Please read Porter's Handbook more carefully. All others ports
> > that start with capital letter are broken and await to be fixed.
>
> So how long until all the X ports get renamed? :-P
> And actually, in the latest INDEX, there are 106 such ports:
>
> grep '^[^|]*|/usr/ports/[-a-z0-9]*/[A-Z]' INDEX | awk -F\| '{ print $1, $2 }'
>
> If you wish for a list of them. I can see the name of the port in question
> being a bit long, but whining about case seems rediculous.
It is not a trivial operation as long as lot of repo-copying required. AFAIK
it is in Satoshi's TODO list for a quite while now, but his constant lack
of time delays this. Therefore, plese don't make situation even worser than
it is already.
-Maxim
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