From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Jul 1 15:24:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from smtp13.bellglobal.com (smtp13.bellglobal.com [204.101.251.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EC3C14A09 for ; Thu, 1 Jul 1999 15:24:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hoek@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost.nowhere (ppp18358.on.bellglobal.com [206.172.130.38]) by smtp13.bellglobal.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA09108; Thu, 1 Jul 1999 18:25:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from tim@localhost) by localhost.nowhere (8.9.3/8.9.1) id SAA32070; Thu, 1 Jul 1999 18:25:08 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from tim) Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 18:25:08 -0400 From: Tim Vanderhoek To: Doug Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org, nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk Subject: Re: ports/12463: Update: Fvwm2 to 2.2.2 Message-ID: <19990701182508.A31961@mad> References: <19990701152359.C48778@mad> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95i In-Reply-To: ; from Doug on Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 12:44:30PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 12:44:30PM -0700, Doug wrote: > > I've done several ports myself, so I feel qualified to judge it in > context. In particular, the COMMENT is most important (IMO) in the If anything, that would disqualify you, but if we used that criteria, we'd disqualify far too many people. :) > sysinstall case, where they are viewed one at a time. I submit that you > are looking at them en masse, which a typical user would never do. Disagree, strongly. Even in sysinstall, they are viewed en masse. Then there's also the README.html files, again, en masse. > don't believe that legislating the use of articles at the beginning of the > sentence adds utility in comparison to the pita factor of trying to > enforce it. The PITA factor of enforcing the lack thereof is pretty low. :) > > [585]unclutter-8 > > Remove idle cursor image from screen > > [1396]wget-1.5.3 > > Retrieve files from the 'net via HTTP and FTP > > Should be, "Retrieves . . ." [etc] Well, either way. They should be consistent. I'm happy with "Retrieves", etc., although that means one less character is available. > My main point is that having the A/An there DOES improve the > readability, at a very low cost. I don't see a compelling reason to change > them one way (all A's) or the other (no A's). We have more than enough I was interested in opinions on this. I can't say how thoroughly I disagree. I hope someday you will change your mind. I will wait patiently until then. I hope others jump in and give me an excuse to remove the "A "s, though. I still have trouble believing that there is much of a chance you are right. > reason not to allow a little creativity/variety in an area that has no > signficant impact one way or the other. Uh, I wouldn't exactly call this a creativity issue.... > > I'm also considering that maybe I should've made an exception and not > > capitalized "perl5" when it appears at the start of a comment. > > My understanding from the Perl FAQ is that the proper punctuation > should be, "Perl 5". Same, but the de facto standard was "perl5 module" until I changed a bunch of them to "Perl5 module", which I wouldn't have done if I'd reviewed the diffs more closely. Incidentally, in this case I value de facto standard pretty highly. -- This is my .signature which gets appended to the end of my messages. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message