Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2021 01:54:19 -0700 From: Kevin Bowling <kevin.bowling@kev009.com> To: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> Cc: Kevin Bowling <kbowling@freebsd.org>, Po-Chuan Hsieh <sunpoet@freebsd.org>, dev-commits-ports-all@freebsd.org, dev-commits-ports-main@freebsd.org, ports-committers <ports-committers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: git: 69c9420a212a - main - news/inn-CURRENT: New port to follow CURRENT snaps Message-ID: <CAK7dMtBfmzkkH6%2BH65be_P2g4Lf0YRmEqFjOOWZdVDpJEm5t1A@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <YMRuyKDxUlESzror@FreeBSD.org> References: <202106120054.15C0stWJ075154@gitrepo.freebsd.org> <CAMHz58Qj0-zMocZw0WFVJzQvfSrfaY=cK%2BUnauiU==4kKE1zMQ@mail.gmail.com> <CAK7dMtA1wH3kAnYsobpZFr0orLYWgsLxDgXL2cHOr9DLxJt1xg@mail.gmail.com> <YMRuyKDxUlESzror@FreeBSD.org>
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On Sat, Jun 12, 2021 at 1:22 AM Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 12, 2021 at 12:41:14AM -0700, Kevin Bowling wrote: > > There's no clear guidance on this kind of thing in the docs, if you > > feel this strongly it would be helpful to document it in the handbook. > > If you ever worked with ports, you could have noticed that we follow > `-devel' convention (we currently have over a hundred such ports) and > there's not a single example of `-CURRENT' port. > There are several prominent -current ports, so are you proposing yet another level of mental gymnastics to erase information? Document rules and reasons instead of haunting mailing lists. > > If you look at things like X11 libs, ImageMagick and perl modules > > there is no such information erasure, so, why? > > Things like CPAN packages, Python modules, etc. come in large numbers, > have an established naming convention of their own which is also > followed by popular GNU/Linux distributions we want to loosely stay > consistent with, that's why. But it has nothing to do with how we > name unstable/development/snapshot versions of ports and packages. > So, it=E2=80=99s ok to obey upstream conventions if they come in large numb= ers.. sounds like a textbook cargo cult used to bludgeon contributors. > ./danfe >
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