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From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>
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On Sat, May 18, 2019 at 08:09:45AM -0500, Jason Bacon wrote:
> Ultimately I chose to follow the pattern of lowercasing the port
> directory (except for special cases like perl and cran) and matching
> the case of PORTNAME with upstream

Vast majority of upstream names use mixed case (most common is first
capital letter), but we and GNU/Linux people don't do that: look at
package names of Firefox, DeaDBeeF, PostgreSQL, etc.

> (which in this instance eliminates the need for GH_PROJECT).

Setting GH_PROJECT is perfectly normal in this case.

> It's not consistent, though, which bugs me a little: [...]
> 
> It would be nice if we either had a clear convention about PORTNAME
> or the pkg command were universally agnostic about case.

Or we could simply follow Unix predilection to lowercase and stop
worrying about these issues.

./danfe