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Date:      Wed, 12 Oct 2016 16:46:07 +0300
From:      Boris Samorodov <bsam@passap.ru>
To:        Mathieu Arnold <mat@FreeBSD.org>, Boris Samorodov <bsam@FreeBSD.org>, ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r423799 - in head/devel: . arduino-sevseg
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12.10.2016 16:32, Boris Samorodov пишет:
> 12.10.2016 15:53, Mathieu Arnold пишет:
>> Le 12/10/2016 à 14:44, Boris Samorodov a écrit :
>>> 12.10.2016 12:59, Mathieu Arnold пишет:
>>>> Le 11/10/2016 à 23:19, Boris Samorodov a écrit :
>>>>> +PORTNAME=	arduino-sevseg
>>>>>
>>>>> +GH_PROJECT=	SevSeg
>>>> This should be:
>>>>
>>>> PORTNAME=SevSeg
>>>> PKGNAMEPREFIX=Arduino-
>>> I like our tradition to have port names in lower case. There are
>>> exceptions but this post AFAIK is not among them.
>>
>> There is no such tradition.
> 
> Yes, there is. The Porters Handbook (Table 5.1. at the end of the page):
> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/porters-handbook/makefile-naming.html

Hm, I see what you mean. This table has a note "No uppercase names for
single programs". Unfortunately, not very helpful note.

It may be a good idea to document the port naming guides.

> Those examples are old one (more then 10 years).
> 
>> The rule is that PORTNAME follows upstream's naming.  The only exception
>> when the port installs a single utiliity and that utility is lowercased.
>>
>> For example, if sysutils/lsof's distfile was called, say, LsOF, PORTNAME
>> would still be lsof because the utility is in lower case.
>>
>> Now, this, here, is some library that does not install a binary, so that
>> rule applies, follow upstream's choice of naming.
> 
> Is it your POV? Mine just disagrees.

-- 
WBR, bsam




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