From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 2 21:15:38 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx2.freebsd.org (mx2.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36C05106566B; Mon, 2 May 2011 21:15:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from 65-241-43-5.globalsuite.net (hub.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::36]) by mx2.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0511314E501; Mon, 2 May 2011 21:15:35 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4DBF1EF6.50105@FreeBSD.org> Date: Mon, 02 May 2011 14:15:34 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110429 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gabor PALI References: <201105020531.p425VDbe056515@repoman.freebsd.org> <4DBE60CE.5090305@FreeBSD.org> <4DBE63F6.2050602@FreeBSD.org> <4DBF08A2.1070208@FreeBSD.org> <4DBF1B77.4000903@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4DBF1B77.4000903@FreeBSD.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org, Ashish SHUKLA , cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, ports-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/devel/hs-BNFC Makefile distinfo pkg-descr pkg-plist ports/devel/hs-filemanip Makefile distinfo pkg-descr pkg-plist ports/textproc/hs-lhs2tex Makefile distinfo pkg-descr pkg-plist X-BeenThere: cvs-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: **OBSOLETE** CVS commit messages for the entire tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 May 2011 21:15:38 -0000 On 05/02/2011 14:00, Gabor PALI wrote: > On 05/02/11 21:40, Doug Barton wrote: >> my understanding is that we are not using upper-case letters for new >> portnames. Is my understanding incorrect? > > Although Section 5.2.5 of the Porter's Handbook says "No uppercase names > for single programs" [1] (i.e. your understanding is correct) I have met > numerous ports in the Ports Collection ignoring this A) Past bad examples are never a good reason for making new mistakes, which is why B) I specified new ports in my question > So when I started to manage > Haskell ports ("hs-") I decided to do the same, because there many > Haskell Cabal packages [2] with case-sensitive names so translating them > bluntly to lowercase may cause collisions Has this happened in practice, if so how often? If not, how often do you think it might happen in the future? My personal preference would be to follow the guidelines generally, and deal with exceptions as needed, but I'm certainly willing to listen to reasons why this is a bad idea. :) Doug -- Nothin' ever doesn't change, but nothin' changes much. -- OK Go Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/