Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 19:12:10 -0400 From: "Garance A Drosehn" <drosih@rpi.edu> To: "Alexey Dokuchaev" <danfe@FreeBSD.org>, "Mathieu Arnold" <mat@FreeBSD.org> Cc: svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r436025 - in head/lang: . OpenCoarrays OpenCoarrays/files Message-ID: <C30422C8-DA43-4387-95C7-322838F0626F@rpi.edu> In-Reply-To: <20170314122514.GA39417@FreeBSD.org> References: <201703122025.v2CKPT3j040756@repo.freebsd.org> <20170312210236.GA75488@FreeBSD.org> <20170312225202.76a6f57b@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> <00a0ce93-cfc3-c93d-d0df-09a800258698@FreeBSD.org> <20170314131123.7e074dd8@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> <20170314122514.GA39417@FreeBSD.org>
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On 14 Mar 2017, at 8:25, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > On Tue, Mar 14, 2017, Tijl Coosemans wrote: >> On Tue, 14 Mar 2017 Mathieu Arnold <mat@FreeBSD.org> wrote: >>> This was uncalled for. >>> >>> The *only* reason we use to lowercase the name of a port when >>> upstream is not lowercased is if it provides a lowercased >>> binary to run. > > No, we always prefer lowercase, with a few known exceptions. > Every sane packaging ecosystem does the same (GNU/Linux > distributions, Homebrew, you name it). First let me start by saying that I personally prefer having all the ports names being lowercase. But to ignore my personal preference for moment, note that: # port list OpenCoarrays OpenCoarrays @1.8.2 science/OpenCoarrays same if you search for the lowercase name: # port list opencoarrays OpenCoarrays @1.8.2 science/OpenCoarrays for this specific port, macports does not use the lowercase name. As near as I can tell, 'homebrew' does not have this port at all. I'm not much of a linux wizard, but https://www.rpmfind.net/ suggests that there isn't an RPM for it either. So the one packaging system which has this port, has it listed under the mixed-case name. And as long as the search in FreeBSD is case-insensitive, then I have no strong opinion about which name should be used in our ports collection. On 14 Mar 2017, at 8:42, Mathieu Arnold wrote: > > The *only* reference to case in the porter's handbook is in an > example, and only for single binary ports. > If this is going to be source of contention over personal opinions, then maybe the porter's handbook needs to include some more explicit statement. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = drosih@rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@FreeBSD.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy, NY; USA
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