From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 26 21:46:47 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A72F106566B; Wed, 26 May 2010 21:46:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amdmi3@amdmi3.ru) Received: from smtp.timeweb.ru (smtp.timeweb.ru [92.53.116.15]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 535B78FC24; Wed, 26 May 2010 21:46:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [213.148.20.85] (helo=hive.panopticon) by smtp.timeweb.ru with esmtpsa (TLSv1:CAMELLIA256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1OHOR1-0001ei-1n; Thu, 27 May 2010 01:46:43 +0400 Received: from hades.panopticon (hades.panopticon [192.168.0.32]) by hive.panopticon (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D863B84D; Thu, 27 May 2010 01:46:42 +0400 (MSD) Received: by hades.panopticon (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7CD9EB829; Thu, 27 May 2010 01:46:42 +0400 (MSD) Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 01:46:42 +0400 From: Dmitry Marakasov To: jhell Message-ID: <20100526214642.GA43302@hades.panopticon> References: <4BFBDBC0.6040902@FreeBSD.org> <4BFC1D3D.7070904@dataix.net> <20100526154941.GC25216@hades.panopticon> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: ports@freebsd.org, Gabor PALI , freebsd-haskell@haskell.org Subject: Re: Renamed Haskell Applications X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 21:46:47 -0000 * jhell (jhell@DataIX.net) wrote: > Normally I would object to something like this but in this case being that > it is about Haskell applications, the change helps users locate all of the > Haskell related ports quicker. Its almost as if the hs-* ports were in > their own category like the ports-mgmt tools are. They are. make -C /usr/ports search cat=haskell > For another part upgrading these will also be a slight bit smoother > and locating what Haskell packages you have on your system will > be easier just specifying hs-* to a upgrade tool or to > pkg_de[lete|install]. There's no guarantee that all haskell-using ports will be prefixed with hs- (and I hope they will not). For upgrading haskell ports, one should use portupgrade -R ghc-\* I strictly object to adding hs- prefix to end-user applications like darcs and xmonad, because it's a huge POLA violation. Users do not care what the application is written in, they just search for devel/{svn,mercurial,darcs} and x11-wm/{xmonad,icewm}, and should find these ports in the expected places. We don't prefix mercurial with py- and icewm with c-, similarily we shouldn't prefix darcs et al with hs-. Modules that are used only for development and as dependencies is a whole different thing, and definitely are what prefixes are for. -- Dmitry Marakasov . 55B5 0596 FF1E 8D84 5F56 9510 D35A 80DD F9D2 F77D amdmi3@amdmi3.ru ..: jabber: amdmi3@jabber.ru http://www.amdmi3.ru