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Date:      Wed, 30 Jul 2014 07:25:48 +0000
From:      Max Brazhnikov <makc@freebsd.org>
To:        Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>
Cc:        svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org, William Grzybowski <wg@freebsd.org>, Adam Weinberger <adamw@adamw.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r363361 - in head/editors/fte: . files
Message-ID:  <3898057.T8DsoXnEEp@mercury.ph.man.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20140730070412.GA97692@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <201407291646.s6TGkjHH090335@svn.freebsd.org> <41D25BC1-AC62-4280-A342-8A2BDD84B1E0@adamw.org> <20140730070412.GA97692@FreeBSD.org>

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On Wed, 30 Jul 2014 07:04:13 +0000 Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 01:10:45PM -0400, Adam Weinberger wrote:
> > I'm about to rename all patches that contain ::. Can we please stop
> > producing patches with :: as a path separator, and use __ instead?
> 
> Can we also stop using double underscore as it makes patch names so ugly
> and unreadable that I have to spend twice as much time working on ports
> that uses this stupid convention?

It comes from the makepatch target.

> There are plenty of nice, single characters to chose from: -, _, and +
> should suffice most needs (yes, this also covers avoiding confusion that
> original "double underscore" convention was trying to solve).

What about U+00A0 :)

Cheers,
Max



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