Date: Wed, 04 May 2011 11:28:13 +0200 From: Pav Lucistnik <pav@FreeBSD.org> To: bf1783@gmail.com Cc: Gabor PALI <pgj@FreeBSD.org>, Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>, "b. f." <bf1783@googlemail.com>, 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 Message-ID: <4DC11C2D.2010006@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <BANLkTinmHFOfqutyC40UbsZR2R80vdZOFw@mail.gmail.com> References: <201105020531.p425VDbe056515@repoman.freebsd.org> <4DBE60CE.5090305@FreeBSD.org> <4DBE63F6.2050602@FreeBSD.org> <4DBF08A2.1070208@FreeBSD.org> <1304450016.3028.6.camel@hood.oook.cz> <BANLkTinmHFOfqutyC40UbsZR2R80vdZOFw@mail.gmail.com>
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On 2011/05/04 00:46, b. f. wrote: > On 5/3/11, Pav Lucistnik<pav@freebsd.org> wrote: >> Doug Barton píše 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-* ? It's a guideline not a law. No I don't think these need to be changed retroactively. Actually R is such a well recognized software name while r means nothing, so I'd not want to see math/R renamed either. -- Pav Lucistnik <pav@oook.cz> <pav@FreeBSD.org>
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