From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 4 12:29:34 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE66816A408 for ; Thu, 4 May 2006 12:29:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from infofarmer@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0102.google.com (nz-out-0102.google.com [64.233.162.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D12F543D46 for ; Thu, 4 May 2006 12:29:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from infofarmer@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id l1so424411nzf for ; Thu, 04 May 2006 05:29:33 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=BoO3ikdJsnaerk7MX0azMoFEISbEOBiah5pwFBRrNM3pKMUVgFYB26mlcnnIRagJk8r9PXOB3DaQlOfkjEW6Kq+oQSkONrgXIEr5qfGobyWeMtTZJ9U64FLpTxTr2m0iU1L/bEFLfcrOe/Y/gm6eqE5nUE0jaBDVjVQ3MTSP6yo= Received: by 10.65.114.3 with SMTP id r3mr405552qbm; Thu, 04 May 2006 05:29:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.65.177.14 with HTTP; Thu, 4 May 2006 05:29:33 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 16:29:33 +0400 From: "Andrew Pantyukhin" To: "FreeBSD Ports" , "Alex Dupre" , "Thierry Thomas" , "Lapo Luchini" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Cc: Subject: xpi-extensions naming scheme 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: Thu, 04 May 2006 12:29:35 -0000 I urge contributors and committers to choose folder names wisely for newly created xpi extensions. If you take a look at [1] you'll find over a thousand of extensions and two times that of undescores in their names. Chances are we'll have dozens of xpi's in our ports collection in just a few months. It would be a shame if we were to see twice as much ugly folder names. If you absolutely like underscores, then go ahead and use them. But I'd rather s/_// or s/_/-/ or even use camel notation. Mozilla.org just chose this scheme for storage, it doesn't really show up anywhere, while in FreeBSD this is the primary way to address a port. Maybe it's worth it to rename adblock_plus and pdf_download to something else - at maintainer's discretion, of course. PORTNAME/PKGNAME don't matter much, we can change that later (in fact LATEST_LINK uses ${PORTNAME:S/_//g} at the moment). Also, on a sidenote this whole xpi thing is not perfect yet, and while we try to ensure that no changes to the ports are required, it's a good idea to be prepared to cooperate when we break something. Thank you very much! [1] ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/extensions/