Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:16:03 +0800 From: wen heping <wenheping@gmail.com> To: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> Cc: cvs-ports@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, Pawe? P?kala <pawel@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/x11-fonts Makefile ports/x11-fonts/anonymousPro Makefile distinfo pkg-descr pkg-plist ports/x11-fonts/anonymousPro/files pkg-message.in Message-ID: <CACi771_QHacqERUDDcrb=PH=vr=CEGMLk_5KgsT0Tw7=Zn6Q7A@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20111130080947.GA95193@FreeBSD.org> References: <201111292232.pATMWINp021704@repoman.freebsd.org> <20111130015504.GB3953@FreeBSD.org> <20111130090313.00003930@unknown> <20111130080947.GA95193@FreeBSD.org>
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2011/11/30 Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>: > On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 09:03:13AM +0100, Pawe? P?kala wrote: >> Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org> napisa?(a): >> >> > Could we please please please stop adding ports with upper-case >> > letters in their names? =C2=A0Both `anonymous-pro' and `anonymouspro' = (as >> > vendor's WWW page) suggest both are much nicer names. >> > >> > I would appreciate if you readd it and explain this to original >> > submitter. >> >> It's not entirely submitter fault, I wasn't sure about this naming >> either so I decided to do things by 'The Book' which says in chapter >> 5.2.5 Package Naming Conventions: >> >> "The first letter of the name part should be lowercase. (The rest of >> the name may contain capital letters, so use your own discretion when >> you are converting a software name that has some capital letters in >> it.)" > > This section is a bit misleading. =C2=A0I believe it tries to embrace cas= es like > p5-* ports which are OK to be mixed cased for the reasons of retaining How about py-* ports ? wen > similarity to their CPAN names. =C2=A0For 99% of other ports this rule sh= ould > not be applied. > > Especially if "mixed" name looks just plain dumb and ugly. =C2=A0We shoul= d not > uphold upstream's stupidity. > > Thanks for readding in advance. > > ./danfe
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