Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 12:56:37 -0500 (CDT) From: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: changing a Makefile based on user input Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0408051253130.29818-100000@pancho> In-Reply-To: <20040805155012.GA71609@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On Thu, 5 Aug 2004, Matthew Seaman wrote: > I don't think there would be any problem with having two ports of the > same name except for case differences, but ICBW. Please don't do this. In addition to the user confusion, portsmon will be unable to properly assign PRs about the capitalized version of the port. (Internally, everything is mapped to lowercase to compensate for PR submitters' typos.) In addition, I thought that policy was to prefer all lowercase for port names; never mind the fact that commits with uppercase do sneak through, and that many existing ports use uppercase. mcl
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