Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2021 17:32:20 +0000 From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> To: Kevin Bowling <kevin.bowling@kev009.com> Cc: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>, 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: <YMTvpKNXJvdwgVhN@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <CAK7dMtC65bigiiKzXzWQO_NvRkfcVQNbmCE1FtSGtAVZrFCY8w@mail.gmail.com> References: <202106120054.15C0stWJ075154@gitrepo.freebsd.org> <CAMHz58Qj0-zMocZw0WFVJzQvfSrfaY=cK%2BUnauiU==4kKE1zMQ@mail.gmail.com> <CAK7dMtA1wH3kAnYsobpZFr0orLYWgsLxDgXL2cHOr9DLxJt1xg@mail.gmail.com> <YMRuyKDxUlESzror@FreeBSD.org> <CAK7dMtBfmzkkH6%2BH65be_P2g4Lf0YRmEqFjOOWZdVDpJEm5t1A@mail.gmail.com> <20210612110814.GA12205@lonesome.com> <CAK7dMtAp6NYeReCqP2C%2BvtebGnjemF=22GznR%2B7Z%2BBjEdHSkAA@mail.gmail.com> <YMTmScCZp5xzI50/@FreeBSD.org> <CAK7dMtC65bigiiKzXzWQO_NvRkfcVQNbmCE1FtSGtAVZrFCY8w@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, Jun 12, 2021 at 10:03:16AM -0700, Kevin Bowling wrote: > On Sat, Jun 12, 2021 at 9:52 AM Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 12, 2021 at 08:53:35AM -0700, Kevin Bowling wrote: > > > ... > > > There is no technical reason to change the proper names of software, > > > it's downright silliness. > > > > The reason here is mainly organizational, not technical, -- that is, > > consistency or, as Mark had very nicely put, trying bring some order > > into the chaos which is immanental to the huge collection of software > > we have in our ports. We cannot and should not follow every stupid > > upstream naming idea (or any other their stupidity, FWIW). > > It's not stupid to respect the naming of other people's work. FreeBSD > is FreeBSD, not freebsd, and -CURRENT was -CURRENT not -current. You're mixing here the proper names and how they map to inherently and predominantly lowercase Unix naming tradition, which spans from filenames to APIs. > If you referred to me as 'kevin' repeatedly I would assume you are lazy > and not really care. Note that both your @gmail.com email and freefall login as all lowercase. > Software naming is not our choice. We're not arbitrarily changing names, just brush them so they nicely fit together with other packages we offer to our users. ./danfe
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