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Date:      Mon, 5 Sep 2011 20:57:29 -0500
From:      Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>
To:        Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Ports Mailing List <ports@freebsd.org>, neal@nelson.name, wen heping <wenheping@gmail.com>, Ruslan Mahmatkhanov <cvs-src@yandex.ru>
Subject:   Re: Maintainership of py-zopetesting and py-zopeevent
Message-ID:  <20110906015729.GB13195@lonesome.com>
In-Reply-To: <4E656B6E.5080105@FreeBSD.org>
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On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 05:38:06PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
> My understanding is that we don't do port names with . in them. Can
> someone who knows more than I confirm one way or the other?

The porter's handbook is ambiguous:

  The first letter of the name part should be lowercase. (The rest of
  the name may contain capital letters, so use your own discretion when
  you are converting a software name that has some capital letters in it.)
  There is a tradition of naming Perl 5 modules by prepending p5- and
  converting the double-colon separator to a hyphen; for example, the
  Data::Dumper module becomes p5-Data-Dumper.

But, in "Here are some (real) examples on how to convert the name as
 called by the software authors to a suitable package name:":

v3.3beta021.src 	(empty) 	tiff 	(empty) 	3.3 	What the heck was that anyway?

I'm not sure I see a compelling reason to change an existing name in
this case, anyways.

mcl




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