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Date:      Tue, 3 May 2011 18:46:12 -0400
From:      "b. f." <bf1783@googlemail.com>
To:        pav@freebsd.org
Cc:        Gabor PALI <pgj@freebsd.org>, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, cvs-all@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org, Ashish SHUKLA <ashish@freebsd.org>, cvs-ports@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
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On 5/3/11, Pav Lucistnik <pav@freebsd.org> wrote:
> Doug Barton p=ED=B9e v po 02. 05. 2011 v 12:40 -0700:
>> On 05/02/2011 00:57, Gabor PALI wrote:
>> >   On 05/02/11 09:44, Doug Barton wrote:
>> >> On 05/01/2011 22:31, Ashish SHUKLA wrote:
>> >>>     devel/bnfc ->   devel/hs-BNFC
>> >>
>> >> I thought we didn't do new upper-case port names on purpose?
>> >>
>> >
>> > It stems from HackageDB [1].  The port will be converted to a
>> > bsd.cabal.mk [2] consumer soon.
>> >
>> >
>> > [1] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/BNFC
>> > [2] http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/lang/ghc/bsd.cabal.mk
>>
>> I'm sorry, I don't understand this response. I realize that there are
>> some software packages that have upper-case letters in their names.
>> However, my understanding is that we are not using upper-case letters
>> for new portnames. Is my understanding incorrect?
>
> My understanding is that the first letter must be lowercase, next
> letters are allowed to be uppercase if there's a good reason ie.
> upstream naming.
>

We have some existing conventions that don't conform to this rule, and
will affect the addition of new ports.  The CRAN ports use R-cran-*,
and more of these ports will be added.  Do you want us to move these
to r-cran-* ?

b.



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