Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 20:22:33 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com> Cc: sobomax@FreeBSD.org, demon@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@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 ... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103082016380.9222-100000@besplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <20010307121615O.jkh@osd.bsdi.com>
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On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Jordan Hubbard 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. Have you heard of the rule about using underscores instead of hyphens in file names? :-) Almost all file names in non-contrib'ed code in 4.4BSD-Lite2 follow this rule. Even pkg_install follows it :-). But ports actively break it (pkg-*). Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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