Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2020 08:01:21 +0000 From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> To: Kubilay Kocak <koobs@freebsd.org> Cc: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org>, ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, python <python@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r531949 - in head/devel: . libuInputPlus Message-ID: <20200418080121.GB40012@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <a8d5b0aa-8397-5abf-eefa-6befafb1ce3a@FreeBSD.org> References: <202004171637.03HGbWMf060426@repo.freebsd.org> <20200418022541.GA6251@FreeBSD.org> <70db47ee-0448-467b-92e6-278ad8bae2ab@localhost> <20200418071022.GA40012@FreeBSD.org> <a8d5b0aa-8397-5abf-eefa-6befafb1ce3a@FreeBSD.org>
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On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 05:49:43PM +1000, Kubilay Kocak wrote: > On 18/04/2020 5:10 pm, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 06:28:06AM +0000, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > > > I never understood why portname should be lowercase if upstream considers > > > it should not, there are precedent of mixed case (actually respecting > > > upstream will). > > > > For the same reasons we don't have `www/Firefox', `databases/PostgreSQL', > > etc. It does not look unixish. There are few special cases when it is > > indeed desirable to use mixed cased names, e.g. CPAN packages, Python > > modules, those things with established naming convention of their own, when > > we bring lots of them to our ports and want to stay more or less consistent > > with popular GNU/Linux distributions, but those are isolated groups. > > The Python example is in fact actually an example for the opposite. Well, what I was saying there is that Python ports are distinctive, large group of ports that may prefer to follow some specific naming convention. Perhaps I should've just mentioned CPAN. > The reason we lower-case as a policy in Python is to reduce human, > contributor, maintainer, committer error by reducing/removing the impedance > mismatch between the case insensitivity upstream vs case sensitivity in > ports. Awesome, so you guys also follow the default sane convention. That's good. ./danfe
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