Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 13:40:43 -0600 From: "Jeremy Messenger" <mezz7@cox.net> To: "Kirill Ponomarew" <krion@voodoo.oberon.net> Cc: Oliver Lehmann <oliver@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/x11 Makefile ports/x11/Terminal Makefile distinfo pkg-descr pkg-plist Message-ID: <opsk90x5w99aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com> In-Reply-To: <20050127193541.GC57021@voodoo.oberon.net> References: <200501271827.j0RIRfeP052265@repoman.freebsd.org> <Pine.LNX.4.44.0501271232580.30725-100000@pancho> <20050127202704.1241613c.oliver@FreeBSD.org> <20050127193105.GA22233@xor.obsecurity.org> <20050127193541.GC57021@voodoo.oberon.net>
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On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 20:35:41 +0100, Kirill Ponomarew <krion@voodoo.oberon.net> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 11:31:05AM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: >> > > I thought we were preferring lowercased port names? >> > >> > Even if the author of that software have choseen to write and use it >> > uppercase? >> >> This is discussed in the porters' handbook. > > We're currently living with 77 uppercased PORTNAMEs' though. Yes, compare to thousands. The 77 uppercased port should be change to lowercase. When I used to visit forum often and few rookie users can't find abiword, because it was 'AbiWord'. I think, it does matter. Cheers, Mezz > -Kirill -- mezz7@cox.net - mezz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD GNOME Team http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - gnome@FreeBSD.org
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