From owner-cvs-all Fri Apr 19 5:50:59 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from gw.nectar.cc (gw.nectar.cc [208.42.49.153]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A43737B41D; Fri, 19 Apr 2002 05:50:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from madman.nectar.cc (madman.nectar.cc [10.0.1.111]) by gw.nectar.cc (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13975F; Fri, 19 Apr 2002 07:50:49 -0500 (CDT) Received: from madman.nectar.cc (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by madman.nectar.cc (8.12.2/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g3JComVw000395; Fri, 19 Apr 2002 07:50:48 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from nectar@madman.nectar.cc) Received: (from nectar@localhost) by madman.nectar.cc (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id g3JComYF000394; Fri, 19 Apr 2002 07:50:48 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 07:50:48 -0500 From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" To: Doug Barton Cc: "David E. O'Brien" , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/Tools/scripts patchtool.py Message-ID: <20020419125048.GB352@madman.nectar.cc> Mail-Followup-To: "Jacques A. Vidrine" , Doug Barton , "David E. O'Brien" , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org References: <20020418192829.GA25519@madman.nectar.cc> <20020418175817.K8772-100000@zoot.corp.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020418175817.K8772-100000@zoot.corp.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-Url: http://www.nectar.cc/ Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 06:00:56PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: > On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 11:50:59AM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: > > > On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote: > > > > > > > IMHO there was value in doing it in one consistent, mostly unambiguous > > > > fashion, even if it wasn't `perfect'. `_' isn't perfect either, IMHO, > > > > and I'd rather not change just because it is someone's pet peeve. > > > > > > One could argue that the :: convention came after some of us had > > > already started using _, but without making so much noise about it. > > > > One could, but I don't think that's the point. > > But, but... it was YOUR point just a second ago. :) :-) > > OTOH, that leaves over 88% of the port patch files still using the old > > convention or not including directory names. > > I snipped the rest of your stats, because I think this is the > telling item. It's not to late to fix something that looks like it might > be broken. > > > We had this same thread some time ago, and we picked a convention and > > stuck with it > > Pardon me for missing that discussion, but sometimes things need > to change because operational issues (which always reach a wider audience) > highlight problems that weren't apparent from theoretical discussions. > It's part of life in our world. I don't disagree. However, (IMHO) there are no problems here, and there is nothing broken. Just a convention that has seen considerable use; is simple to use; and works -- it provides an unambiguous canonical representation of a path. At least e.g. URL encoding wasn't used :-) Cheers, -- Jacques A. Vidrine http://www.nectar.cc/ NTT/Verio SME . FreeBSD UNIX . Heimdal Kerberos jvidrine@verio.net . nectar@FreeBSD.org . nectar@kth.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message