Date: Sat, 18 May 2019 16:03:48 +0200 From: Jan Beich <jbeich@FreeBSD.org> To: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> Cc: Jason Bacon <bacon4000@gmail.com>, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org, "Jason W. Bacon" <jwb@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r501873 - in head/biology: . gemma gemma/files Message-ID: <4l5r-g8qj-wny@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20190518131804.GA12903@FreeBSD.org> (Alexey Dokuchaev's message of "Sat, 18 May 2019 13:18:04 %2B0000") References: <201905171445.x4HEjKE4084764@repo.freebsd.org> <20190518102522.GA45838@FreeBSD.org> <205369ac-7666-0d45-7f76-a473915a0eb9@gmail.com> <20190518131804.GA12903@FreeBSD.org>
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Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> writes: > 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. - DeaDBeeF installs bin/deadbeef, built from deadbeef-0.7.2.tar.bz2 - Firefox installs bin/firefox, built from firefox-67.0.source.tar.xz - PostgreSQL installs libraries under lib/postgresql + include/postgresql, built from postgresql-11.3.tar.bz2 See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faulty_generalization
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